I've just recently come back on a Jet 2 from PMI and 40 minutes or so in my flight, the pilot came on and said to us that there is a 'Slight Malfunction', we will be going slower and will arrive 15 minutes later.
Does he have the authority to just blurt this out? I mean even the cabin crew were suprised, shouldn't they be notified first? To tell us.
I was suprised alot. The aircraft was a Boeing 737-300. (The white one, Ex-Bmibaby. G-CGET, for bmibaby G-TOYE).