west lakes and lowcostdolly: I do take your point about cabin crew learning on the job and the need for understanding, but I assure you what I experienced was altogether different. The flight attendants on that flight were not remotely interested in delivering anything like a professional-standard briefing. My brother is a captain at FR and I spoke to him about this. I am not the complaining type, I only did it because I felt it was important that someone address the matter with the staff involved in the interests of safety.