What The Deal With Those Pa's?

[mullet]

Is there any way to ban the dreaded 'connecting gate information announcement'?
"Flight 282 to Rochester gate A-22 that's A as in Apple-22..." On a full 757 that thing lasts damn near 10 minutes...as a professional deadheader I'm trying to sleep.

The passengers arent even listening and will always check the monitors inside. Annoys the pilots who sometimes need the PA. Maybe the FA's just like to hear themselves over the PA?
See ya onboard
"1L 1R" "2L 2R"

 

[tadjr]

Since most customers should have the connecting boarding passes already, maybe the company policy should be changed to say
"for your connection flight information, please look on your connecting boarding pass for your next flight. If you do not have your boarding pass, you can check the monitors or ask the agent meeting the flight when you arrive"

My connections arent listed half the time anyway....
must be a nonrev thing...

 

[ringmaruf]

My favorite are the crews to LAX who always make the announcement, "If you have a connecting flight on US Airways or US Airways Express, please see the gate agent or a monitor inside the terminal."

Next time I connect in LAX on US Airways Express, I'll be sure to do that.

 

[USAirBoyA330]

I always thought reading gate connections was annoying to passengers. It's like hearing a bad game of BINGO. Plus, if your coming from the West Coast or vice versa, the gate information is old. The gate agent tells them upon checking, it's on the monitors and written on the boarding sleeve! If they can't figure it out with all that, they are a total mess and don't need to fly.
However, it is "PROCEDURE" and no...I am not based in CLT.

 

[Benz M-100]

The ones I absolutely HATE are the long drawn-out 10000' announcements, especially if they are not turned down. Most of the time they're very loud and Wolfgang Puck's voice on that system sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. The food isn't bad, though.

 

[BoeingBoy]

Benz M-100,

I'm glad you mentioned the 10,000 foot announcement. It's especially bad on the planes that use the video monitors. I'm always tempted to pick up the mike afterward and say "Now that we've had our one saftey anouncement and ten commercials, I'm going to turn the seat belt off and ......"

Jim

 

[BoeingBoy]

Folks,

As silly as these things are, USAirBoy330 hit the nail on the head - "it is PROCEDURE". I can be corrected by any of the f/a's, but I believe the company actually prefers that the announcements be read to insure they are done verbatum. Ask a f/a to show you their manual sometime. It really does have "Welcome aboard flight ______(insert flight number) serving _______(insert airport).... " or something like that.

Piney, maybe we can add this to your web-site duties!!!!

Jim

 

[ClueByFour]

I've actually seen a (the?) cards to do the greeting, safety demo, and such. It's hilarious.

And hey, cut the folks going to LAX a break--it's entirely possible that your crew is ex-PSA, in which case it's entirely possible that they, at some point in their careers, flew into LAX when you could connect to a US Express flight .

 

[Light Years]

Some PA rules from Light Years, the Miss Manners of the sky.

*If you arent good on the PA, stay off it.

*If you dont know how to pronounce something, or where it is, dont do it.

*Do not say "the following flights leave from the A terminal" then the B, then the C-that means they have to listen for thier flight five times and that you are not the coldest beer in the fridge. Who came up with that dumb one?

*Frankfurt and Munich are in Germany, not Delaware.

*Unless you are landing in a US Airways hub or focus city (crew base) dont talk about connections. No one is catching a US Airways or US Airways Express flight out of Seattle.

*Millions of dollars were spent to add the "ways" onto the name of the airline. Say it.

*Dont call it "the USair magazine", its Attache.

*If you mess up, just keep going, dont stop midsentence and put the hanset down in embarrasment.

*Bighamton is not pronounced Bing Hampton.

 

[tadjr]

*Unless you are landing in a US Airways hub or focus city (crew base) dont talk about connections. No one is catching a US Airways or US Airways Express flight out of Seattle.

Actually there are some cities that arent focus cities or crew bases that do have Express connections. MCI/MSY(not for long)/TPA/MIA/MCO/PBI are a couple I can think of.

 

[Light Years]

Good call, tadjr... and maybe a couple at BWI or are they all gone?

 

[ktflyhome]

hahaha> Light Years. Loved that.

I remember recently, I was on the PA. giving the departure announcement. I was reading it too from our little (orange book now). I said, ....."adjust the strap so it fits low and tight around your LIPS".... everyone howled. Sometimes things just slip out and ya have no control.

 

[Light Years]

Its happened to the best of us, especially when we're in a hurry. I once told a planeful of folks that they were on a flight with "cervix to Phoenix".

h34r: I was mortified.

 

[ktflyhome]

I will never forget this one: I was still basically a new-hire and we were going to Bangor (we had service then). The plane was about 1/2 full and were in the aisle collecting trash. The Pilot came on over the PA and said(in a southern drawl). "Well , ladies and gentlemen it will only be abut 15 more minutes, til we get to "bang...her". The Pax's all cracked up. I still laugh about it today.

 

[cltflyguy]

no offence but so what if you are a professional dead header and your trying to sleep. Its not about you...its about the people around you and the service we provide to them. Believe it or not people do listen to gate connections. Ive seen a tons of people pull out their tickets or the attache to see where we are coming into and what gate they will be leaving from as the connections are being read.

As for the "if you are holding a connection" part of the announcement after landing, Once you have read that announcement a million times over and over you don't think about it anymore. You just say it. It becomes repetitive and you dont even think if the city you landed in has a connection or not. You are doing good that we (as flight attendants) remember where we are when we landed.

as flight attendants...ever get off the plane and someone stops you and ask where that flight just came from......and you honestly have to think about it for a second!! LOL It happens!!