monkey hear monkey do.
And that's not aimed at QF or any airline in particular.
Unless it's in the comapany SOPs and if it was I guess we would have heard about it here by now, somebody somewhere has picked it up from someone else and it becomes the current "cool".
Like the US practise, "XYZ out of thirty" not standard but every body knows what he means.
With the saturation of the public airwaves with radio, tv, podcasting, sms, and email there's a whole new language being invented by the hour.
"filth" used to mean awful, it now means "really awesome" which used to be "cool dude" fantastic" which used to be "great".
