Originally Posted by
Mart81
I couldn't care less to be honest it's not about who has the biggest e-penis, I just find the word "deplane" something that a 6-year old would come up with by lack of better terminlogy at hand.
All BA staff, pilots & cabin crew refer to disembarking when making announcements, I'd say for the primary carrier of the country where the language has been "invented" that would put some weight in.
Well, yes, although I am not sure that we ought to take British Airways as an arbiter of the good use of English!
I don't, however, hear "deplane" very often in the UK, or anywhere else really, except perhaps among airline staff making announcements in offialese (even if not BA staff); such announcements are often in rather stilted language anyway. But I do think that "disembark" is more commonly used. As I said above, most ordinary people simply "get off the plane"!