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Detroit Free Press writer wants to kill pilots
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They both suck
In Rosenberg's profile it says, "Rosenberg also alternates weeks writing the Break Room humor column with fellow Free Press writer Tamara Audi." Guess they both need some help finding topics. Both articles sucked. One crappy writer feeding off of the other. Yawn...
whymeworry?
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Actually, I agree with this guy.
A captain I once flew with told me this:
Passengers hear an average of 26 announcements from the moment they walk into the terminal until they reach the cabin of the plane. Then the FAs drown them in the same announcements about getting in their seat, storing their bags, etc. Then the cockpit crew tells them about the flight, and on and on and on. All before they even take off. Once enroute, unless there is going to be a delay, they really don't want to hear from you. Put simply, they pay us to get them from point A to point B on schedule. If we can't get them to point B, or if we can't get them there on schedule, then they want to know why and when they will arrive. Otherwise, leave them alone.
He and I flew together a few times and since there is an airshow on our aircraft, he would tell me not to do the PA at cruise since the "folks" don't want to be bothered... afterall, they've got all the info they need on the airshow. I never made PAs with this guy, it was nice.
Up until we pissed off some old bag FA. She wrote us up for not doing a PA and we both had to do a rug-dance in the CPO. Actually, we burried her in our counter-writeup and now he has a mark in her permanant file but that's another story. Point is, the company is stuck in yesteryear and still expects us to do PAs, so I do them. But I do so knowing full well 85% of the passengers just want me to shut it.
On my commute home last night, the pilot interrupts the movie, about the seat belt sign, wx on arrival... blah, blah, blah. Everyone in back was pissed because it was at a critical scene in the movie and because we heard something like 15 announcements on the ground due to a long taxi delay.
If it were up to me, we would do only two announcements:
1) On the ground welcoming the pax aboard.
2) On the descent telling the "folks" the arrival gate and weather... which they will probably not listen to anyway.
The old enroute announcement/ PA is out.
A captain I once flew with told me this:
Passengers hear an average of 26 announcements from the moment they walk into the terminal until they reach the cabin of the plane. Then the FAs drown them in the same announcements about getting in their seat, storing their bags, etc. Then the cockpit crew tells them about the flight, and on and on and on. All before they even take off. Once enroute, unless there is going to be a delay, they really don't want to hear from you. Put simply, they pay us to get them from point A to point B on schedule. If we can't get them to point B, or if we can't get them there on schedule, then they want to know why and when they will arrive. Otherwise, leave them alone.
He and I flew together a few times and since there is an airshow on our aircraft, he would tell me not to do the PA at cruise since the "folks" don't want to be bothered... afterall, they've got all the info they need on the airshow. I never made PAs with this guy, it was nice.
Up until we pissed off some old bag FA. She wrote us up for not doing a PA and we both had to do a rug-dance in the CPO. Actually, we burried her in our counter-writeup and now he has a mark in her permanant file but that's another story. Point is, the company is stuck in yesteryear and still expects us to do PAs, so I do them. But I do so knowing full well 85% of the passengers just want me to shut it.
On my commute home last night, the pilot interrupts the movie, about the seat belt sign, wx on arrival... blah, blah, blah. Everyone in back was pissed because it was at a critical scene in the movie and because we heard something like 15 announcements on the ground due to a long taxi delay.
If it were up to me, we would do only two announcements:
1) On the ground welcoming the pax aboard.
2) On the descent telling the "folks" the arrival gate and weather... which they will probably not listen to anyway.
The old enroute announcement/ PA is out.
xjcaptain
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As far as the seab-belt sign, you might want to brush up on FAR 121.571(a)2.
BEECH-SLAPPED
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Just to take another whack at this dead horse, here is Rosenberg's direct email address and phone #:
Contact MICHAEL ROSENBERG at 313-222-6052 or [email protected].
Contact MICHAEL ROSENBERG at 313-222-6052 or [email protected].
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