Originally Posted by
enviroian
I've never heard pre-recorded boarding announcements ever at Sky Harbor. Perhaps I'm not paying attention. I've only ever heard a gate agent pick up the mic and start with "CK and active military may board through the lane marked 1" or something like that.
Do you mean automated like the overheard voice at Phx that says "Mr Smith, you have a message waiting at the paging assistance location" type message?
Color me confused.
They definitely use the pre-recorded voice for boarding at PHX. Just fly from PHX to PIT on Monday and they were using it at the next gate (which had 2 GAs). Interesting, everyone seemed to pay attention to it as passengers approached when their group was called. Our gate also had 2 GAs but every announcement was handled by one of them.
One of the GAs at the next gate must have hit the wrong button once - the recorded voice started its testing mode: "one, two, buckle my shoe...". That is as far as it got before they fixed the problem.