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Old May 4, 2009 | 8:50 am
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dannybhoy
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Knowing what translations to provide for announcements is a tricky bizness. Not just a question of the language of the destination but also the predominant language of passengers flying to that destination. Case in point from my experience flying SQ to JED, it would have been quite useless for SQ to have Arabic in its announcements given that most of the passengers on those flights tended to be blue collar workers from the ASEAN region who weren't likely to understand Arabic well if at all. And I don't recall SQ doing Bahasa Indonesia or Tagalog translations on those flights. Likewise if an airline's passengers flying to TLV are mostly not conversant Hebrew speakers, having Hebrew translations might not be of any use.
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