Originally Posted by
ukgooner
I miss the language announcements, not for me but the sense of the cosmopolitan nature of flying. Generally it used to be a shorter announcement of a member of crew speaking xxx and being available, not the whole welcome.
I remember once taking a commuter flight on (now-deceased) Crossair where the flight attendant insisted on making all announcements in 5 languages, English, Swiss-German, Italian, French and Romansh. She presumably originated from the Graubunden as no-one else speaks Romansh. In any case, she spent the vast majority of the short flight (ZRH-GVA) making the standard in-flight announcements.