May I...?
- Humour in a Safety Video? Some Like It, Some Don't...
- Children in a Safety Video? Some Like It, Some Don't...
- Actually watching a Safety Video? Some Do, Some Don't...
The list is endless: Aviation is a Mass Transit process, meaning that almost any activity that is geared to 100% of the people on board will attract the full range of human response. In this instance, the Thomson video generated a high volume of customer approval (many Thomson passengers fly only once a year, or even less frequently). The effort by both airlines and legislative authorities to increase safety video awareness is surely commendable, even if the results don't fit in with personal taste?
I have to confess to fascination with some of the things that appear to drive customers to spirals of fury (Not you
Dengue_Dude, just in general) - requests to turn off phones or ipads for 10 minutes are regarded as infringements of human rights: Requests to watch safety videos routinely ignored: Requests to restrict hand-baggage are met with abuse and derision - Once again, the list is endless.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to explain why these events are more frequent, not as individual instances but as examples of a trend: Something to do with a sense of the importance of individual entitlement exceeding any group or culturally shared set of values. However that's just cod sociology over the first coffee of the day. What I can tell you is that the experience of aviation for all involved has got worse over the 35 years that I have been flying. The blame for that, in my view, lies not just with the airlines and legislative authorities, but also with the species...
