Re: pax anounce
I take your point about the use of 'hope'. It's a difficult one, and hard to avoid using. If you start making promises about 'shouldn't last too long', and it does, you lose a bit of their confidence because you were wrong. You can't be too specific about what is going to happen, so 'hope' is a not very good fallback.
In BA we were decisively stopped from using the 'your insurance doesn't apply' if they get up. It does, but they or the crew can still be liable for injury caused if they are thrown around. The instruction was definitely not to say it. At times like that, it is definitely a case of 'no more Mr. Nice Guy'. It is 'SIT DOWN AND STRAP IN.....NOW!!!!!'