djjaguar64

[QUOTE=Maserati;25623784]I like the music they play in the washrooms on Air New Zealand. Gets louder when you lock the door. The fake bookshelf wall paper is also quite entertaining.



I guess it gets louder so you can mask all those organic reverberations that emanate I guess.

jaysona

Oh please gawd no!! Would you want to listen to it everyday at least twice a day?

I absolutely despised the music and there were many a day where I wished I had a horribly rusty pointy object to smash my eardrums with. On many occasions I got of the plane and opted to take the next one that would be a smaller plane with no boarding muzak!

The only way I would get on a plane with that gawd awful stuff playing is if pax were permitted to board wearing earphones, then i could listen to my own music and not be subject to the same repetitive stuff over and over again.

I also feel bad for the crew, I would consider having to work in such an environment over and over again to be a form cruel and unusual punishment and to be a hostile work environment.

winnipegrev

Perhaps boarding music on widebodies only could be a good compromise. Should spare the commuters the agony. AC never played its slideshows on narrowbodies IIRC.

yyznomad

LO uses Chopin inspired (no surprise) variations... Op 10 No 3 E Maj etude comes to mind. I love that piece.

lespoir

InTheAirGuy

There should be separate music, uplifting and heavenly, for those of us in zone 1. We shouldn't have to listen to the same music as for lesser boarding zones.

DrunkCargo

You mean the new hold music as opposed to the old?

yyznomad

But what happens if a Zone 1er boards near last?

SparseFlyer

I would expect dynamic adjustments based on Status and fare paid.

But knowing AC IT, I'd be surprised if there's any music playing at all.

yyznomad

I vote that Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" be played during the boarding process.

SparseFlyer

ワーイキュビに行ってか。

yyznomad

Maybe. You?

I was also thinking instead of Sabre Dance, Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" might work too for the boarding music.

Transpacificflyer

EVA sponsors the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra;
The orchestra is featured by bringing up talented Taiwanese players and promoting Taiwanese folk music. Two of the many performances of ESO is on EVA's boarding, approach, and disembarkation background music, accompanying the shots of Taiwan on the PTV's and overhead screens during boarding

Perhaps one day Air Canada will sponsor a similar group in Canada or even some regional community orchestras and use their music as EVA does. If one has experienced the classy EVA method, one need not worry about muzak or boredom or pain etc.

capebretonboy

Another Sky by Taro Hakase is the ANA boarding music. I fly ANA a few times each year and really enjoy hearing it, especially when I land in Asia! The track can be purchased on iTunes. I purchased it and listen to it on all my flights as I find it relaxing.

kevinharding

I rather enjoy it as well.