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Old Feb 19, 2023 | 2:13 pm
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Originally Posted by BWBriscoe
On long haul usually the flight deck do their pre-descent announcement around 40 minutes out from destination with seat belts going on about 20 mins before landing (at roughly 20,000ft I think).

However on short haul it seems to be very different and most times the flight deck makes the announcement after descent has started and seat belts tend to go on about 10 minutes out from destination.

What’s the standard policy?
Hi,

That will be standard policy AFAIK. It will be different between long haul and short haul as the cabin crew may have to do more on the long hauls ( I'm sure someone will be along to provide more details)

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