Lindstrim

Just saw this come up not sure how true it is or if its been posted before.


Paul Milner took an early morning flight on Pacific Blue last Friday (9/5) and noticed staff added some personal flair to their on-board announcements:

"We at Pacific Blue pride ourselves in having some of the best flight crew and cabin staff in the world - unfortunately they couldn't be with us today ... "

" ... in the event that oxygen is needed masks will drop. To operate, pull the mask down - stop screaming - and fit the mask ... "

" ... pull the tags to inflate the vest ... there is also a whistle and a light to attract attention - of sharks."

" ... no smoking anywhere on the plane even in the toilet where there is a smoke detector and an alarm - and a video camera."

"Did anyone notice those naughty passengers who didn't wait for the plane to stop before leaving their seats? We now ask those people to kindly leave the plane."

" ... your luggage is being unloaded and will be available once we have gone through it and removed anything of value."


Little bit of a laugh.

greenslopes

Your point being..............?

Oh...sorry your one of those eternally sad gits who think all should be grim.

If it gets the punter to put down their paper and pay attention then perhaps the humour has had the desired effect....lets face it you noticed!

Chin Up Old Boy

hot tuna

I'm a sad git too.... A safety announcement is just that. P**S around all you like on the PA for the rest of the flight, but not during the Safety briefing.

Mr. Hat

they should seriously consider jobs as stand up comedians.

very original.

distracted cockroach

The usual bunch of the same old gags.....sorry, but I'm another of those sad gits who thinks professionalism is more important in flight crew than the ability to be amusing.
Personally, this would be totally groan inducing if I was a passenger, and totally embarrasing if I was a crew member. If I was the Captain I would be asking that such "hilarity" be kept to other announcements and the safety PAs be restricted to just that.

Lindstrim

I dont give a flying monkeys what they do. If it makes the passengers take notice then I'm all for it.

When travelling with a rugby team to Dunedin we all did the safety procedures back to the CC. They thought it was a great laugh, so did most of the other passengers, until someone complained about us.

I wasnt actually there it was on the NZ hearald thats all. So probably quite a few people noticed it as well.

distracted cockroach

Well it was sent into the Herald column "Sideswipe" by someone.
Can anyone here (on a prof. pilot's forum) honestly tell me you have never heard those gags before? If not I suggest you get out more! They are as old as the hills and about as funny now as they were then.

Cypher

Ask yourself, what TV commercials have you seen that you remember, ones that were dry and witless, or clever ads that delivered their content in a entertaining manner.

People tend to remember stuff that they find relevant to them. If they enjoy something, they also tend to remember it.

How many pax have you seen when you've been travelling just ignore the passenger briefing and keep reading their paper. Hit them over the head with a briefing that makes them sit up and notice, making them ask themselves what is it that everyone else in the aircraft finds amusing. They'll probably then end up paying attention to the briefing instead of finishing reading section one of the Herald.

Sure I agree there is a limit where the original content shouldn't be diluted down in it's importance, but I hardly see the harm in these announcements as the original message is still there.
Just because it's a different way of doing things, doesn't make it the wrong way of doing things...

18-Wheeler

As above, comedy like that doesn't often work.

That being said, I was on a VB flight some time last year and they pulled off a very funny trick that worked well - The hairy-leg hostie up the front started doing the PA, but the regular female hostie down the back did the voice, so for the entire time the bloke up the front mimed it all and did a bloody good job of it.
Everyone LOL'ed.

Queenslander

So when do we get to see Magda Szubandski in a nice TIGHT VB uniform..........

Mr. Hat

have you everpaxed and had to liten to this sort of carry on.
its embarrassing.

SteveWA

As a regular SLF, fortunately not very often on VB and never on Pacific Blue I find this sort of stuff very un-professional .

I am sure all you gentlemen and ladies would agree that RPT or indeed any sort of flying is a serious business, this sort of stuff just seems out of place.

I recall one horrid red-eye out of Perth on VB where the cabin crew started telling bad jokes and then the flight deck told them to "prepare for blast off". Not professional, not needed especially when all I wanted to do was sleep for a few hours, after watching the safety briefing of course........

SteveWA

dudduddud

If they didn't notice a standard passenger briefing, they probably wouldn't have noticed the one with the stupid jokes.

smartalec888

Don't you just love the exit row briefing that has been delievered to pax or "guests" once the door is closed and the f/a is there with her safety demo kit, then realises that she didn't brief the overwings?

Or don't you just love "now when the crew shout get out please open these exits".

What ever happenned to evacuate evacuate evacuate?

Jackaroo 2

This (LOW) standard of SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENTS is a direct 'monkey see monkey do' situation. Monkey Management breeds monkey followers.

How many 2000hrs 737NG pilots have applied for PB and NOT been hired?
Its very much a 'club'. 'Lets just ALL monkey around'.

RadioSaigon

Oh FFS, get off your high-horses you plonkers.

Do you think for a minute that these safety briefings are not approved by the appropriate regulators???

It is the content of the briefings that matters, not the delivery. As others have said, if it gets the pax attention and gets the message through, then I'm all for it. I've only flown VB the once and, whilst I found some of the cracks a little groan-inducing, I did listen with undivided attention to what was being said. I'd rather listen to that delivery of the safety briefing by someone that is obviously happy in their work and enjoying the opportunity to project some of their own personality into their delivery, than the mind-numbing drone offered by Qantas and other airline FA's during theirs.

I see it as a further manifestation of the positive culture engendered in all Virgin operations by founder Richard Branson, and personally welcome it.

RadioSaigon

No, not "all fun & games" sid star -a serious message, packaged in a new and different (dare I say it... entertaining) way that IMO has a much better chance of capturing and retaining the pax attention.

You guys really ought not to take yourselves or life quite so seriously -you're never going to survive it!!!

distracted cockroach

Personally, I would like to thank every other PROFESSIONAL pilot here for taking themselves and life seriously. Likewise the Flight Attendants.

RadioSaigon

ROFPML distracted cockroach

My point EXACTLY!!!

A37575

These peurile public address announcements are not subject to regulatory approval. Compared with the carefully worded skilled (professional?) PA announcements by not only Qantas but other major international airlines (Cathay, Dragonair, BA and others)., the Virgin and Pacific Blue PA's of this nature are undisciplined rubbish. So much so, there are passengers (guests?) who will change their flights to Qantas rather than be forced as a captive audience to cringe in embarrassment at the Virgin flair of funny hee-hee PA announcements.