Comedy pre-flight safety briefings

[P.Pilcher]

Ex-Servant it is quite simple: There is me and my colleague up the sharp end driving the thing and you and your colleagues behind me coping with all the problems generated by the self loading cargo. Left behind us on the ground there are myriads of desk drivers all striving to justify the substantial salaries they earn. One way to justify this is to continuously review such matters as the safety briefing as delivered by the cabin crew. I expect, although the bean counters do not realise it, that the safety briefing and its continuous reviews probably cost the average airline more than it costs to maintain its operations manual! In view of this it is obvious that no departure from the latest safety briefing will be permitted despite the sensible posts about introducing humour e.t.c. in this thread. After all the airlines have ot to get as much value for money from their laboriously honed and re-honed safety briefs as they can.