"Good afternoon, punters and puntettes, today we'll be taking off and tracking overhead Bomaderry... woops, I've just said 'bom'... better report that to the captain... hang on, I am the captain... righto, everybody off while I report to the tower and self-flagellate for 15 minutes... "
Punter A to punter B after a heated exchange in the office: "Yes, Bloggs was getting a bit bombastic in that meeting, wasn't he, Jones?" Jones: "Miss, hostie, this man just said 'bom'"!!
Maybe the welcome should now become:
"Welcome aboard, ladies and gentlemen, now just sit there, shut up and keep quiet until we land in Los Angeles in fourteen hours".
But, just like my thoughts on the Gucci bag in HK incident - maybe the F/As have had their discretion beaten out of them in recent years.
Yep, maybe we've changed our behaviour such that the nasties
have won...