<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by asnovici:
From Aeroflot flight SVO-LHR
(everything pronounced with a very heavy Russian accent with british undertones. linguistic oddities are all real)
"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard Aeroflot Russian Airlines Airbus ThreeOneZero with service to London Heathrow Airport. The captain has estimated our flying time to be 3 hours and 42 minutes since we lift off. We will be serving hot dinner and beverages in the cabin after take off. We will offer DutyFree items after that.
Remember: Aeroflot flights are non-smoking! Do not smoke in the toilets as you will be punished and given to the local police as we arrive to London.
You will be shown a brief video clip showing the safety and evacuation information about our aircraft." <4 minutes later> "Our video system is not working in economy cabin right now, we now will demonstrate the safety proceedings." <2 minutes later all flight attendands standing in the aisles and domonstrating how to fasten seatbelts without any vocal commentaries over the PA system> <then PA system goes on> "Fasten your seat belts now!!!! In the event of pressure loss oxygen masks will automatically appear from the ceiling! <visualize this for a second> Please seat down now so we can pull off from the terminal! Thank you for flying Aeroflot Russian Airlines. Thanks you."
By the way:
In Russian version of the announcement it sounds much more pleasant and calm.
Video system in economy started working after we took off. The seat belt sign was turned off about 20 seconds after we were airborn (almost immediately after take off). This was an idication for about half of the Russian pax to pull the liquior/vodka bottles from the seat pockets in front of them and start having their mid-morning liquid snack (11:40am)...the day has begun...
[This message has been edited by asnovici (edited 04-27-2003).]</font>
I can understand that on Aeroflot. When I flew on Finnair the FAs were like that. "Please put the seatbelts on, we will be flying up soon". Half the pax were giggling.
[This message has been edited by fromYYZ_flyer (edited 04-27-2003).]