Emergency Procedures.
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to PPPuNe and would like to open this topic for discussion, comment or suggestion - the emergency procedures demonstration.
It seems to be the really cool thing for the suits (and almost everyone else)to ignore the safety demonstration. It's almost as if the level of disinterest is used to advertise a passenger's frequent flyer status - the less attention paid the higher up you are on the scale and the cooler you are as a result.
I am sure the cabin crews must find this endlessly frustrating. Information is being given to the pax which will help them to save themselves if it all comes down to the wire and those same pax are busily ignoring it all in case, God forbid, anyone should think it's their first time aboard an aircraft. Those same people will be the first to bleat when something goes wrong and the cabin crew all too busy to give them the individual attention they will demand.
As a passenger, I have a problem with this attitude. When the day arrives that I need to follow the emergency procedures, I am also going to have to deal with a whole aircraft full of people who haven't a clue what they're supposed to be doing because they were too busy advertising their frequent flyer status to take notice of the information designed to save their lives.
The cabin crew will have the same problem. Not only will they be trying to follow procedure, they will also be dealing with a wagonload of "frequent flyers" who now want personal safety lessons because they didn't pay any more attention this time than they did the last time they flew. Their need to appear cool was greater than their need to save their own lives.
Am I the only person out here in passengerland who even cares about this issue? I would love to see the airlines put a little more emphasis on the safety officer status of their cabin crews and a little less on their drink-providing, meal-serving and non-stop-smiling abilities. These are all pleasant extras that add to a good flight but they are not the primary reasons for the cabin crews' presence on the aircraft.
I'd love some feedback on this if only to know that I'm not the only safety-conscious passenger around ..... or perhaps to confirm that I am!!!!!!!!