Flight Attendants
Monitor safety of the aircraft cabin. Provide services to airline passengers, explain safety information, serve food and beverages, and respond to emergency incidents.
131,650 people do this job in the US. $63,580 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 96%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 4%. Today's estimate: 4%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 25 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 7% | 21 min8 min to 42 min | Stays with people | |
| Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 6% | 25 min13 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 6% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 6% | 25 min13 min to 42 min | Stays with people | |
| Heat and serve prepared foods.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 29 min13 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 21 min13 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Monitor passenger behavior to identify threats to the safety of the crew and other passengers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 4% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Prepare reports showing places of departure and destination, passenger ticket numbers, meal and beverage inventories, the conditions of cabin equipment, and any problems encountered by passengers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Passenger Attendants5% now, 5% by 2028
- Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks74% now, 74% by 2028
- First-Line Supervisors of Passenger Attendants37% now, 54% by 2028
- Airfield Operations Specialists20% now, 33% by 2028
- Baggage Porters and Bellhops8% now, 8% by 2028
- Transportation Security Screeners16% now, 16% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
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