I love it when the flight crew have some humour.

One of my favorites was on a flight from BOS-LHR (BA of course). We landed at about 1pm on a Friday. Upon landing we taxied and were stuck waiting (when arn't you at LHR) for ages. So the Steward announces "Whilst waiting for our gate, I would like to advise our American customers that today is a very important day in Britain"

At this point you would see all the British passengers thinking - no it's not! - anyway he continued "today is POETS, and in recognition of this any of you arriving for business at not allowed to go to the office this afternoon"

It was hillarious as all these American's kept on asking what Poet we were celebrating etc. not realising that POETS day means (I'll put the starts in here and save the software the job) P***-Off Early Tomorrows Saturday.


Another one BA do quite often upon landing in the US is the pilot announces the "welocome to wherever, please remain in your seat etc etc" and then says "and may I remind you that we are now under the juristriction of US law, so if you open an overhead locker and something falls on one of your co-passengers heads, they will sue you big-time".

Another one that made me laugh was on a flight to Moscow, this guy kept on coming into Club and asking for Champagne, the first time the Steward gave him a glass, the second time the Cabin Services Director (I love BA's grand titles) came over and said he would have to pay. The passenger asked how much and the CSD said "One Thousand and Three-hundred pounds...." "That's the cost of the upgrade if you want to come into this cabin again".

I wish they would use that approach more often - especially on Moscow flights.
MF