Well, if they really do it I take it all back...amazed, but as dash said there must surely be another reason, we all know few pax listen to a word they're told on the PA and expecting any of them to retain a POB figure is pie in the sky, as is expecting any emergency services to either ask a distressed pax for it, or believe it if they got one. Frankly its pie in the sky expecting cabin crew (or pilots) to remember it either. There are already perfectly well established ways to get that info to the emergency services in definitive form so a system that does it by hearsay is scarcely one to be expected.
Poke, forgive my scepticism, you can see that I am not alone in being surprised by this extraordinary thing.
Perhaps someone travelling Virgin soon can report the exact form of words used, or we'll get a Virgin crew on here to tell us?
Last edited by Agaricus bisporus; 26th Jun 2013 at 00:41.