skycrewhosties
The term "old school" needs to be read in the context of the sentence: "old school virgin blue is all about...". I think adam_ant was talking specifically about crew who are still stuck in Virgin Blue's "old school" way of doing things (eg 'airobics', toilet paper races, over the top announcements) rather than Virgin Blue's "new school" approach (business like, etc.).
adam_ant
I agree about the extra information concerning crew that gets divulged during announcements. Does anyone care that Crew X recently bought some quirky item from e-bay? Or that Crew Member Y's birthday was three weeks ago this Tuesday?
I can see the logic behind the argument that making announcements 'light and fun' may encourage people to pay attention. But isn't there a point at which this becomes counter-productive? Surely after being bombarded with irrelevant pa's people just shut-off to all pa's.