CatYaaak said:First of all, the place where the pilot(s) sit and fly the airplane is a cockpit, not a "flight deck". It wasn't called a "flight deck" in your 152, or T-38, or whatever you learned to fly in. It wasn't a "flight deck" tooling around in your Baron or Hornet...it was a cockpit then too. It doesn't magically become a flight deck instead of a cockpit just because now you're at an airline talking about it through a PA to some passengers. Does a Challenger have a "cockpit", vs. a CRJ's "flight deck"? Do you think that FDR stands for "Flight Deck Recorder", and if so, what does CVR stand for? Saying "flight deck" with a straight face is not unlike using the moniker "sanitation engineer" to describe the garbageman and seriously meaning it. The only "flight deck" I can think of is topside on an aircraft carrier where Naval aviators land their aircraft whilst they sit in their cockpits.
Why is it lame?, because it sounds like you're desperately trying to impress your audience by trying to make it sound like you're on the bridge of a ship, at the helm, a la' Capt Kirk/Picard.
And the "sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight" phrase is THE most overused PA phrase in the sky, and now is simply just an indicator that you don't know what the he11 else to say. Better to say nothing, because this phrase is so overused that it's become a parody of itself. It's lame if you actually believe people take your advice.
for the same reason we call f/a's, f/a's and not stewardesses. flight deck sounds better anyways, and no one but apparantly you cares. since its so boring why dont we just stop thanking people for flying too