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flight attendant
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position in an aircrew
A flight attendant is a member of an aircraft crew responsible for passenger safety and service during flights. This role matters because flight attendants ensure compliance with safety regulations, respond to emergencies, and provide essential care for passengers throughout their journey.
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- Instance of
- profession
- Has part
- aircrew
- Image
- Garuda Indonesia Flight Attendants Serving Refreshment.jpg
- Field of occupation
- civil aviation
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- female form of label
- stewardess
- Commons category
- Flight attendants
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- Flight attendants
- male form of label
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- Category:Flight attendants
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Encyclopedic overview
A flight attendant is a member of the aircrew whose primary responsibility is to ensure the safety of passengers in the cabin of an aircraft across all stages of flight. Their secondary duty is to see to the comfort of passengers. Flight attendants are also known as a steward ( masc) or stewardess (fem), or air host (masc) or air hostess (fem) and are collectively referred to as cabin crew.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “flight attendant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.