Cabin announcement?

[Extender]

Someone in a previous thread mentioned a cabin announcement. That's for the HR or techical interview, right?

Thanks again!

 

[73belair]

Are you serious?

 

[xdashdriver]

ExpressJet...the online application will ask you to print out a cabin announcement which you must be prepared to read when you call for your phone screening.

Ray

 

[ArcticFlier]

AF

 

[73belair]

For a pilot?? What a joke!

 

[ALPO]

Get in! Sit Down! Shut up! And hang on!!

 

[Hosed COEX]

For a pilot?? What a joke!

Yeah, for a pilot. It may be kinda lame to do this in an interview, but you have no idea how many pilots I fly with who stumble over themsleves making a simple cabin announcement. Pax want to feel that they have an intelligent being up there flying them around who can make a coherent sentence, so I do see this as being an important skill. Those pax, after all, provide us with our paychecks.

 

[T-Gates]

Honestly it doesn't seem like a bad idea. I've flown with some guys that are fantastic on the PA, and others that sound like and awkward schoolboy asking out a girl on a first date.

"Ummm...from the...Uhhh..Flightdeck....welcome aboard, ummmm...."

 

[OPECJet]

Mine from today...

"Welcome aboard todays flight to ____. Your captain is in a bad mood and has a terrible sunburn from hanging out on the boat too long. You're F/O got two hours of sleep last night and can't keep his eyes open... The airplane is too heavy today, the runway too short, and the temperature too hot... Good luck folks! See ya on the other side...."

 

[ALPO]

Is this how far this automation is taking us, who cares if can fly, as long as he can do good annoucements. Personly, I'll take the guy who can fly.

 

[80/20]

Sit down, be quiet, keep your feet on the floor, don’t kick the seat in front of you, don’t play with the tray table and we’ll get there when we get there!

 

[Ben Franklin]

Pax want to feel that they have an intelligent being up there flying them around who can make a coherent sentence, so I do see this as being an important skill.

ROTFLMAO

Sincerely,

B. Franklin

 

[WhiteCloud]

"......and if your future travel plans call for arriving two hours prior to departure for a security search and then sitting in a noisy turboprop airliner while in line for takeoff for another 2 hours while thunderstorms clear out on the route and then taxiing back to the ramp (below min fuel) and not arriving at your destination until 6 hours after the scheduled arrival time, please consider flying with United Express again."

 

[willis]

Ben Franklin
What does this ROTFLMAO mean?? I see it everywhere but haven't figured it out yet.
Thanks
willis

 

[Stingman]

It Means...

Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off

Don't you ever RTFM?

 

[labbats]

They should just have the over-exuberant SWA flight attendents from that Airliner show on A&E do it. They can't seem to leave the passengers alone!

 

[CatYaaak]

Seems like a pretty chickensh1t thing to have on an interview, but since it's on there, it's apparently something some 'genius" down at HQ thinks important for a candidate. If someone can't make a PA the company should provide a short, sweet generic one that's written out for them until they get the hang of it. Everyone does after awhile.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

On a recent flight I listened to a AS MD80 FO say his welcome aboard announcement. This guy sure was pretty cool sounding, he had the whole plane clapping after he finished - sure does change the mood of some PAX!

 

[CTS]

There might be more to this. At the beginning of the online application process is says remember the following text, it will come up later in the application process. I printed it out. Then when I was instructed to call the 800# the operator asked me what the text was. So I read it to her. I guess it wasn’t the phrase that pays. I never got a call from an interviewer. Pay is to low anyway.

Point is that they probably just want to see that you can follow directions. It has nothing to do with how well you can say the briefing.

My two cents.

 

[GopherEvertt?]

The PA anouncement is a little thing that can help the regional airline image. How often do you hear, "it's such a small plane", "can this puddle jumper make it all the way to Chicago?", or, "where is the rubberband to wind up the engines?" ?
Sounding professional on the PA can help a little with the overall impression the public has with regionals. I don't think it should be an interview requirement, however.

When I'm deadheading in uniform and some lameass FO (or CAPT) starts blubbering about "blasting off" or "catching y'all on the on other side" or even, "CEE YAA!" , I pretend I'm asleep to avoid looking at this people who are thinking, "my God, is this character actually going to fly us safely to our destination?!" And yes, these were all heard on actual flights. I even once heard an FO before takeoff anounce, " will our sexy flight attendant please be seated for departure!"