Who has the best boarding music???
Best, or rather, most hilarious, was BMA's "the smoke gets in your eyes" done on the Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer, played on the DC9 - used to make us cry with laughter as we screamed down the runway.
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Firstly. Can I just state that Early flying (Sign On before 1400) is for those with pathetic seniority and Volvo-driving Soccer Mums. There I have said it. I am NOT no. 5 FA in SYD for nothing, you know! 
*Just kidding* The last week has just been horrendous (and that's just getting out of bed at 0315 - it was downhill from there, let me tell you)! I didn't even know JQ had flights before Midday...
re. Boarding Music. Qantas Group has enlisted the help of Stellar Entertainment (or less-than-Stellar) for their boarding music across the fleet. It is consistantly both tacky and tragic. Trendy or even ambient doesn't enter the equation with these people.
The 717 fleet (Jetstar and QFLink) are only afforded one music compilation. This compilation - changed every two months - would have to be in the running for The Most Tragic Tunes Award EVERY time!
We have had to endure such tunes as (and I am NOT joking);
If Tomorrow Never Comes, Ronan Keating
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You, Michael Bolton
This is it!, Dannii Minogue
A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton (featuring a chorus along the lines of "...fall into the sky...")
The Day You Went Away, Wendy Matthews
Wind Beneth My Wings, Bette Middler
Crash and Burn, Savage Garden !!! (That is not a joke!
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There was the 'Special Edition' during the Rugby World Cup, which was particularily memorable. There was no less than three (!!!) renditions of Waltzing Matilda
And that was the least of our worries! We had the Qantas Children's Choir singing I Still Call Australia Home and that "I am, you are, we are Australian...." song on rotation 
Then there was that "Summer" one last year. The first song was We're All Going On a Summer Holiday and some song about "...round round wheels, round round round. Down up peddles, down up down. Going to ride along to the other side of town 'til the sun goes down..."
What's with the 'themes' already?!!
And of course, the QFLink tapes had a sexy, deep breathing, "0055" voice (ex-TAA girl for sure!) saying "You are flying Qantas - The Spirit of Australia..." every second song!
Jetstar have got their act together and we get four different boarding music channels to choose from on the A320s. Although one does wonder how they decided which songs went into the two different day and night "moods"?
My favourite is 'Night Mood 1' (Ch 3), which is very Cafe del Mar / Groove Armada. Perfect after a night out! But most CMs select 'Day Mood 2' which is the same music that we have on the 717s
Vile. 'Day Mood 1' is OK. Lots of Pete Murray sort of stuff and even Kylie!
We have always been really unlucky with boarding music. Impulse back in 2000 had 2UE (an AM radio station!) do their music. It was OK but the business people on the 0630 Melbourne flight could really do without Anastacia I'm Outta Love and Pseudo Echo Funky Town screaming throughout the cabin. It was not the most suitable selection to say the least.
I was on a QF 747 coming back from AKL that had the Titanic theme being piped throughout the cabin!
Myself and the other 15 or so occupants of the empty E Zone were exchanging VERY concerned glances throughout the entire crossing of the Tasman Sea.
You crew over in Europe and at Virgin Blue sound much more fortunate in the boarding music stakes than us poor old soles in the QF Group!
Trislander -
\'Do you know the way to San Jose?' - (haven't a clue who did that one!)
I am disgusted! That's Dionne Warwick! Repeat after me. I-C-O-N
It's so hard to get good help these days...
*Just kidding* The last week has just been horrendous (and that's just getting out of bed at 0315 - it was downhill from there, let me tell you)! I didn't even know JQ had flights before Midday...re. Boarding Music. Qantas Group has enlisted the help of Stellar Entertainment (or less-than-Stellar) for their boarding music across the fleet. It is consistantly both tacky and tragic. Trendy or even ambient doesn't enter the equation with these people.
The 717 fleet (Jetstar and QFLink) are only afforded one music compilation. This compilation - changed every two months - would have to be in the running for The Most Tragic Tunes Award EVERY time!
We have had to endure such tunes as (and I am NOT joking);
If Tomorrow Never Comes, Ronan Keating
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You, Michael Bolton
This is it!, Dannii Minogue
A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton (featuring a chorus along the lines of "...fall into the sky...")
The Day You Went Away, Wendy Matthews
Wind Beneth My Wings, Bette Middler
Crash and Burn, Savage Garden !!! (That is not a joke!
)There was the 'Special Edition' during the Rugby World Cup, which was particularily memorable. There was no less than three (!!!) renditions of Waltzing Matilda
And that was the least of our worries! We had the Qantas Children's Choir singing I Still Call Australia Home and that "I am, you are, we are Australian...." song on rotation Then there was that "Summer" one last year. The first song was We're All Going On a Summer Holiday and some song about "...round round wheels, round round round. Down up peddles, down up down. Going to ride along to the other side of town 'til the sun goes down..."
What's with the 'themes' already?!!
And of course, the QFLink tapes had a sexy, deep breathing, "0055" voice (ex-TAA girl for sure!) saying "You are flying Qantas - The Spirit of Australia..." every second song!
Jetstar have got their act together and we get four different boarding music channels to choose from on the A320s. Although one does wonder how they decided which songs went into the two different day and night "moods"?
My favourite is 'Night Mood 1' (Ch 3), which is very Cafe del Mar / Groove Armada. Perfect after a night out! But most CMs select 'Day Mood 2' which is the same music that we have on the 717s
Vile. 'Day Mood 1' is OK. Lots of Pete Murray sort of stuff and even Kylie!We have always been really unlucky with boarding music. Impulse back in 2000 had 2UE (an AM radio station!) do their music. It was OK but the business people on the 0630 Melbourne flight could really do without Anastacia I'm Outta Love and Pseudo Echo Funky Town screaming throughout the cabin. It was not the most suitable selection to say the least.
I was on a QF 747 coming back from AKL that had the Titanic theme being piped throughout the cabin!
Myself and the other 15 or so occupants of the empty E Zone were exchanging VERY concerned glances throughout the entire crossing of the Tasman Sea.You crew over in Europe and at Virgin Blue sound much more fortunate in the boarding music stakes than us poor old soles in the QF Group!
Trislander -
\'Do you know the way to San Jose?' - (haven't a clue who did that one!)
I am disgusted! That's Dionne Warwick! Repeat after me. I-C-O-N
It's so hard to get good help these days...
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Oh my god!
Hi QF skywalker. Hi Pet! How are you? I havent been on here for ages. (Ooooh, I feel so vulnerable!)
"MONEY, MONEY, MONEY" That WAS me!
lolol
I thought it was an appropriate company theme song!
We had such a laugh that day! I brought along my ABBA GOLD CD and cranked it up. We mimed the songs to each other all day. We were even turning our heads to each other in sink - just like the film clip. God we were gorgeous! Well, we thought so anyway.
And yes, there was a company memo. Another one, never mind.
"MONEY, MONEY, MONEY" That WAS me!
lolol
I thought it was an appropriate company theme song!
We had such a laugh that day! I brought along my ABBA GOLD CD and cranked it up. We mimed the songs to each other all day. We were even turning our heads to each other in sink - just like the film clip. God we were gorgeous! Well, we thought so anyway.
And yes, there was a company memo. Another one, never mind.
PPRuNe Handmaiden
Slasher told me once that he used to insist on AC/DC's Highway to Hell be played as boarding music on his 737's that he operated in Vietnam.
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I was sent to RHO to fix an AOG B757 some years ago. By the time the a/c was 's', the flight was a few hours late. The plan was for me to fly back to LGW on this a/c. A lot of the pax had spent some time in the terminal bar and were rather merry when they boarded. I was sat in the cabin with a lot of drunk scousers singing 'Stand by me' along to the boarding music at the top of their voices whilst taking off from RHO in the middle of the night. Not long after most of them fell asleep, so after an initial bout of noise the remainder of the trip was pleasantly quiet.
When Compass 1 went under, I went down to Oz to retrieve the two A300 that we had down there. We routed through SIN on the return flight and bought a few of the pirate cassettes for sale in SIN. Imagine an A300 cabin with only two double seats in it right at the front of the cabin. A total of five people on the a/c and Tina Turner on the PA system being played rather loud. Rather a nice way to fly.
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When Compass 1 went under, I went down to Oz to retrieve the two A300 that we had down there. We routed through SIN on the return flight and bought a few of the pirate cassettes for sale in SIN. Imagine an A300 cabin with only two double seats in it right at the front of the cabin. A total of five people on the a/c and Tina Turner on the PA system being played rather loud. Rather a nice way to fly.
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Lol Qwannas, you crack me up....
I'm getting this image of Qwannas' place, with a whole room wallpapered in company memos.....
And yes, there was a company memo. Another one, never mind.
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nothing like a bit of Marilyn Manson to get you going in the morning.i listen to it on the way to the airport...then again i do have to FLY the things.perhaps the pax would appreciate it to???
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Ditzyboy
Lol!!! Sorry about that. I now know who to hold responsible for that horrendous track- Ms. Warwick! I don't mean to offend your taste in music, I'm sure the original version is great
To answer someone's question (sorry can't remember name and can't be bothered to check) BA do play boarding music, but in my experience nothing other than that 'Ahhhhhhh, ah ah ah!' classical tune that they're obsessed with.
Bye for now,
Tri
Lol!!! Sorry about that. I now know who to hold responsible for that horrendous track- Ms. Warwick! I don't mean to offend your taste in music, I'm sure the original version is great
To answer someone's question (sorry can't remember name and can't be bothered to check) BA do play boarding music, but in my experience nothing other than that 'Ahhhhhhh, ah ah ah!' classical tune that they're obsessed with.
Bye for now,
Tri
