Originally Posted by
fa2fi
If you need to do three full demos in three languages then that's 10 minutes gone. This will mean passengers having to be onboard the craft sooner and the cabin secure. If you're departing 27 at Bristol ten it's a very short taxi. Would you be happy sat there ready to go but having to wait ten minutes to listen to three demos.
That's a nonsense.
I recall connecting from London to a Finnish domestic Saab 340 at Helsinki, 34 seats, about 12 pax on board. Usually they had one cabin attendant but this time had a second trainee. In standard Finnish bilingual style they did the whole briefing (one on PA, other doing the motions) in Finnish, followed by the whole thing again in Swedish. Then they looked at their manifest, looked at ME, looked at one another and nodded, and did the whole thing again in English, which of course I showed full attention to. Didn't take anything like an extra 10 minutes.