Am I in a minority of one in thinking that life jacket demos (or videos) are pretty much useless for large aircraft on scheduled services? How many incidents can you recall where passengers did don jackets as instructed and did it made any difference to survivability?
Fast evacuation on the ground is much more likely to save lives - and that means NOT getting your stuff out of the overhead lockers. Emirates were very very lucky not to lose anybody when they had a 777 pancake in Dubai and catch fire resulting in a total hull loss. Yet I believe the Indian Embassy only had 9 requests for replacement passports after the crash - since virtually everyone on board on a flight from India took the time to get their hand baggage out of the lockers. Lucky indeed to get out in time when several slides were unusable.
High time to take a look at drastically revamping the content and presentation of standard safety vids/demos. IMO.