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I have flown corporate most of my flying career. Now I fly for a regional and have to make cabin announcements. Although I have been doing them for a while I quite often stumble over words and end up looking like an idiot with lots of errr.....and uhhhhhh...'s I need to have a standard announcement that I make everytime that sounds professional and leaves the passengers confident that I know what the hell Im doing up there but I am not a public speaker. Can someone, anyone help? What kind of announcements do you make? Any examples?

"Good Evening ladies and gentlemen....."

Also do they really care that the winds are out of the Northwest? or what the ceiling is? Most passengers im sure would just like to know if its snowing or raining or what the temperature is and if they are just connecting thorough that city they probably dont even care about that. Whats your thoughts?


Thanks, FREQUENCY
 
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If you get your first Officer to beat you silly with the crash axe just prior to your inflight announcements- they will sound alot smoother and you won't stummble or stutter over your words - sometimes if you can sit their and picture your first officer naked and then get beat over the head with the crash axe - it will work much better - good luck - T
 
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"Hey, y'all! You sit on down and get real comfy, y'hear? Weather up yonder is gonna get bumpy, but for the city folk, it's gonna be like rush hour with the brakes on an' a few potholes to boot. We don't allow no smokin in the airplane, but y'all that's got em, smoke em, cause we don't want nobody getting too excited.

No mary jane. If yer that bad off, call the stewardess...an I gotta tell ya that they don't like to be called that, based on some bad personal experiences...an she'll getcha some vodka or somethin' better. Save a shot for me.

The weather's real good up there yonder past the bad stuff. That's 'da bomb' for you city folks, and for the rest of ya, that means it's aaa-okay. Not 'the bomb' like some of ya mighta thought I said. None of that here, and we caint say stuff like that on this here airplane, so dontcha even try. Shoot, I'm probably in trouble fer even bringing it up, but that's okay. We're cool.

Now cuz it's coming up Christmas an Hannukah an stuff, you gotta know the weather up there is frightful, but it's gonna be real delightful in here. An fer those that didn't catch it on the way in, there's a big fat sprig of missles toes hanging over the front cabin door. I gotta warn some of you younger fellas, though, don't push yer luck with Suzy. She's doin first class, she's yer steward, er, attendant, and I shoulda put that different. She aint doing first class, she's servin first class, if ya can really call it that these days, but don't y'all mess with her, and I mean you college kids what with yer raging libidoes and what have y'all. She's flat mean.

Any way, we're real proud to have ya aboard our jet airplane, and hope y'all have a good flight. If ya do have a good flight, we'd like ya to go tell all your friends and buddies and kinfolk. Have em come fly with us, and we'll be proud to haul them too. If'n y'all don't have a good flight, we'd like it a lot if you'd just keep your pie-hole shut. What with bombings and shootings an shoes blowin up, missles, white powder and kids puking in the seatbacks (an I gotta say right here and now that the first one a ya that leaves another dirty diaper next to an airsick bag for suzy to clean up, you know who you are, I'm gonna kick yer butt up around your ears an hang ya up by that misstle toe), it's hard enough getting people aboard. So like yer mamma shoulda told ya, if ya got something nice to say, say it. If ya don't then don't say nothing at all.

That's all I gotta say. Y'all have a real good flight, and remember that Jesus wouldn't want ya stealing those headphones, cause we gotta pay for em somehow.

Oh, and one more thing. I don't know how many of ya read the paper or whatever, but we aint doing too good on the stock market. They're talking about more furloughs, and that's airline speak for putting the working man in the soup kitchen for a spell, and that ain't no good. So for those of ya that's got the means, we'd be real appreciative if'n ya sees it in yer heart to put a few dollars in the slot in this beefed up door. I gots kids in school and three ex-wives that all got a piece a me, and that money, anything you can give, is gonna go to bail us out so we don't gotta lay off no more pilots or stewardesses, and so we don't go bankrupt. Also, no more than ten percent of those contributions are gonna go to alcohol for pilots, so don't y'all worry none.

Anyway, y'all lean back an try not to bust yer backseat neighbor in the nuts, close yer eyes, and we'll do our best to make it to Peoria in one piece. Thanks fer flying, and God bless. Give till it hurts, and we hope we see y'all real soon!"


Anyway, that's the gist of it. You can put it in your own words.
 
Avbug, e.g. VO Man, you are cut off!
 
Avbug:

That announcement was an absolute hoot, but I hope you weren't talking about Peoria, Illinois because I've never heard anyone from Peoria (or anywhere else in Illinois) talk like that.

Must have been a Nashville-based flight crew...
 
From the ancient files...

Reckon we gotta dig out the recording of "Nashville Cats" by The Lovin' Spoonful.... :cool:
 
Announcements are the greatest! I can't wait to wear the four golden stripes on my shoulder and make an annoucement to my two passengers in my Archer....:D

Captains usually speak briefly after the flight attendant does, and then gives a "report" enroute at crusing altitude...and then just before landing...but I can't really remember...the ones I really listen to are the ones enroute...

I'm sure the must be some standardized phraseology that are used for announcements...they all sound pretty much the same...just like ATC talk?

Archer
 
This is what we normally do at Continental Express on the ERJ. During boarding the flight attendant has a boarding music CD that plays from 5 minutes before boarding starts to engine start. The music is interrupted by the F/A announcements and sometimes (50% of the time with me) the captain will add a welcome and give a few short specifics about the flight (flight time/temperature at destination/route of flight).

After takeoff and passing through 10,000 we give the F/A a chime indicating that we are through 10,000 and we also turn off the blue steril light that is over our cockpit door. She/he will then go through all the portable electronic devices stuff.

During the climb if it looks smooth I will normally either turn off the seatbelt sign and say nothing if it is a short flight or talk to the cabin again if it is a longer flight if it is the FO/s leg to fly. If I'm flying the leg the FO will handle the sign changes and PA's.

When we begin the descent I pull up the weather and send an "in range" report via ACARS. Shortly after we get the message I'll talk to the passangers again and give them the up to date weather and gate assignment before I sit them down. I then thank them etc. and make sure they know how much we appreciate their business. Sometimes at busy airports in big cities I let them know what side of the aircraft will have the best view of Manhatten/downtown Chicago or whatever.

Passing through 10,000 again on the descent a chime is given and on comes the steril light. 10 minutes from touchdown one of us will give the cabin 2 dings with the No-Smoking sign indicting our final descent so the FA can stow and secure galley carts and make the appropriate landing announcements. 2-3 minutes from landing the non-flying pilot says"flight attendant please be seated for arrival/landing" and then I bounce the plane onto the runway and we're done with that leg.

IAHERJ
 
And when you Embraer guys do the enroute PA, make sure you push the PA button, 'cause we're all tired of listening to the whole thing on the center frequency!

Not that I've ever done that myself! ;-)
 
And when you Embraer guys do the enroute PA, make sure you push the PA button, 'cause we're all tired of listening to the whole thing on the center frequency!

Never had a problem pushing the PA button. Now remembering to push the 1 radio button when I'm done....thats a different story :D
 
IAHERJ,

And don't forget to frequently consult the Effective Cabin Announcements book by Captain DMB, specific to COEX. If you've seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about. What a toolbox.
 

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