PA Announcements

[JetDriver1]

What have been some of the most interesting PA announcements you have made/heard?

I'll get it started....I was a passenger on a Chq flight once, and it was the FA's birthday, so the CA had everyone guess her age and write it down on their napkin then turn it in to the FA. He announced the rules over the PA while inflight, and it seemed to make the pax happy to hear his enthusiasm. Then the person who got it right would get a free alcoholic drink. It turned out that everyone got a drink just for playing.

I figure we could all use some ideas to keep the passengers entertained and ourselves looking good!

 

[Noise]

I have 2 actually, both quite amusing in my eyes anyways.

1) Flying from MSP to CUN last spring, we were on Ryan Int. The captain and first officer were contract pilots from spain, and spoke very broken english. While enroute, the captain makes an announcement that sounded like a bunch of jibberish, until he pulled out "OK, So we are flying verrry high and verrry fast. We get there soon.) Then, while making his announcement on the initial descent, not a soul on the plane understood what he said, and he was on for what seemed like 5 minutes. WHen he finishes, one of the FA's gets on and says "Translation: We are beginning our descent, please sit down and buckle up"

2) Was riding the jumpseat while a friend of mine was captain. His good buddy, another captain, was hitching a ride back home from CVG i think. Well, we decide that we want to mess with him a little, so on his PA announcement upon waiting in line for TO he says "Here at XXX airlines, we like to recognize our employees for going above and beyond the duties of their jobs. We currently have our flight attendant of the year on board this flight, his name is _________, and he is sitting in seat 9B. He won this award last week as voted on by his peers. Please join me in congratulating him with a round of applause." We were rolling up front, since it was quite in the plane due to holding short, the applause was extremly loud. We could hear him saying "I'm not a FA, i am a CAPTAIN!"

 

[zawillif]

Captain's PA with the passengers boarding, going from Pensacola to Atlanta:

"Keep in mind that there is no smoking allowed on this or any Delta flight etc. . . Our flight time today is 47 minutes and we have about 3 hours worth of fuel on board. So if its been 3 hours and we're still flying I suggest you smoke 'em if you got 'em."

Captain was very funny and made a couple great jokes, this was the only one I can remember. He had the whole cabin laughing and having a good time.

 

[blueridge71]

We used to have a male FA at CVG who would do trivia contests and sing karaoke with the passengers. He would quiz them on the safety briefings and give out snacks as prizes.

I've also had a couple of FAs who basically did stand up comedy routines.

 

[G2T]

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. I know in this competitive market you have your choice of bankrupt airlines to choose from, we appreciate you choosing ours!"

 

[FastestPA31Ever]

At the end of the captain's "greeting from the flight deck"...

"And remember, if you marry one of us, you fly for free!"

Southwest, of course.

 

[great cornholio]

On the landing PA breif into Vegas on UAL mainline. "We know you have your choice of bankrupt airlines to fly and we are glad that you chose us. And I hope everyone has better luck in Vegas then I did with my career...but thats a different story."