UA requires announcements every 10 min prior to departure, verbatim, from the announcement book, subject to discipline if you do not comply. Since the merger, the number of required announcements has increased dramatically.
Why is that?
I find US airlines in general babble way too much. The art of concise announcements seems to have been lost here. Lots of filler words, long pauses. Bottom line: less people pay attention to them.
It's amusing that other airlines seem to be able to provide announcements in multiple languages, yet are somehow able to keep them shorter.
