The view from the flight deck?
In an ideal world we'll speak to you before we start the engines and push back and again in the cruise.
End of the day, if we need to bust a groove to beat the aircraft next to us to the push back or to meet a slot we'll leave it to the ever capable cabin crew to brief you on the important safety instructions and the less important flight times.
In the cruise we'll normally have time to speak to you. Not entirely sure a seasoned traveller needs us to tell them that we're at 36 thousand feet and making good progress to x with an on time arrival expected. The weather at the airport being fine for our approach but otherwise not a hugely useful prediction of weather in the surrounding area. The ever popular "We're passing over z, but it's dark and we're flying above thick cloud" speech isn't a huge amount of use to the tourist or the business traveller.
If you are interested feel free to ask the cabin crew questions such as "Where are we?" "What route are we flying?" "What type of engines are on this aircraft?" You may get funny looks, but we'll normally try and give you a sensible answer or a badly drawn diagram....
If it's stormy/snowing or foggy and you don't hear from us it's more likely we're busy working out the 2nd, 3rd or even 4th option for where to take the aircraft. Yes we want you to enjoy your flight, but getting you to the most suitable airport is our main priority.
End of the day our main job is to get you to where you want to be as safely and as quickly as possible. If we can add extra value to your flight we'll try. We aren't ignoring you for the hell of it, we're probably working out how long we can sit in the hold before we divert and speaking to our operations department to find out which airport has the best facilities to look after you and get you to your orginal destination from our diversion airfield.