>>1738070Answer is mostly no.
I can fully understand the confusion over what cabin crew actually do, but the important job that they do is actually operating things like the aircraft doors, ensuring passengers are safely belted up and also ensuring that all doors for things like luggage lockers and the galley are secured and safe for critical parts of flight such as take off, landing, taxi and also during periods of extreme turbulence.
Cabin crew are also trained with all safety measures related to the aircraft they may be deployed. In an emergency, cabin crew need to know how to put oxygen masks onto the faces of passengers - cabin crew get oxygen tanks. They need to know how to extinguish fires - they have access to smoke hoods, nomex gloves and special extinguishers for this. They also have the training for things like ditching the plane on land and ditching the plane in water.
Cabin Crew also get some bomb training, though this is fairly... light... and focuses more on how to prevent shrapnel, prevent fires and also prevent triggers from causing it to do the thing.
They're also key to relaying information from the cabin to the flight deck. Should someone on board fall ill, they're the only people who can actually let the pilots know what's happening, and then coordinate an emergency landing.
The fact that they serve passengers food and drink during the cruise phase of flights comes down more to the fact that cabin crew, much like the pilots, do fuck all during cruise anyway.
