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May 25, 2008 | 12:55 am

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Originally Posted by vbroucek

Interestingly, no one commented on the issue of seatbelts - why politely in German and order in English?

Isn't this just the standard way the sentence is used on English-speaking airlines as well? If I remember correctly, most US/UK based airlines just have the sentence there without "Please".