Originally Posted by
eightblack
I have. I love how the Australian media tend to exaggerate anything to do with air travel "i.e. the Emirates staff were running around..." and then one article was critical of the staff not making announcements in Arabic.
I know if it was me I'd want the flight crew to be fully focussed on flying the plane.
Lets be thankful the aircraft and passengers landed safely back in Sydney. Be interested to see if this plane is fitted with RR or GE engines.
I agree totally with the general sentiment here about the lamentable reporting of stuff like this.
But the article quoted a
passenger complaining about announcement not being made in Arabic. If there was an announcement in English to the effect "its OK, under control", and it seems that there was, eventually, there is no excuse for also making the announcment in the language of a good % of the passengers and/or the home language of the airline. I had an incident on a Malev plane and an announcment was made in Hungarian (I think) and that's all. I was rather concerned, as the passengers didn't react well to the Hungarian version!
And the senior FA would be making the first (and possibly 2nd, 3rd) announcment. Pilots would be flying the plane and maybe take the mike later. Just like QF32.