Recorded English announcements?
Feb 3, 2019, 12:08 pm
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Recorded English announcements?
I recently flew NRT-SJC, and while the Japanese announcements after take off and before landing were made by the purser, the English ones were a recorded message. I have not encountered this before, and wonder if this was specific to the flight, at the discretion of the crew, or a new policy.
Feb 4, 2019, 12:45 pm
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I recently flew NRT-SJC, and while the Japanese announcements after take off and before landing were made by the purser, the English ones were a recorded message. I have not encountered this before, and wonder if this was specific to the flight, at the discretion of the crew, or a new policy.
On the IAD route, I've heard them throw in Vietmanese, too--the DC area has quite the Vietnamese population--but all of it was live.
Feb 4, 2019, 5:49 pm
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Thanks for the reply. I've never heard recorded flight announcements on any other airline, and I've flown ANA multiple times over the past decade, so I was wondering if this was something new. It wasn't a problem, though.
Feb 5, 2019, 12:59 am
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I would say recorded annoucements in English are kind of rare, but going to areas of less comon languages I hear them fairly often. JAL always has a some recorded Russian annoucements on the Moscow route. I often hear BA or Lufthansa run a recorded message in Danish/Swedish/Norwegian when heading to Denmark/Sweden/Norway.
Feb 5, 2019, 7:12 am
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I saw this post yesterday afternoon and mentally noted that I'd never heard of that before, and then that very night I flew HND-GMP, and most of the English announcements were recorded. It was my first time ever hearing recorded *English* announcements on ANA (I also don't recall hearing them and most other airlines, too).
Feb 5, 2019, 9:12 am
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Cost cutting to save on English Language FAs staffing numbers? (i.e. not just any English speaking FA is qualified/allowed to make the announcements....)
But, frankly, who cares? = Unless it is an irregular update (diversion/delay or some other emergency), its the same repeated info. anyway.
But, frankly, who cares? = Unless it is an irregular update (diversion/delay or some other emergency), its the same repeated info. anyway.
Feb 5, 2019, 2:48 pm
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I saw this post yesterday afternoon and mentally noted that I'd never heard of that before, and then that very night I flew HND-GMP, and most of the English announcements were recorded. It was my first time ever hearing recorded *English* announcements on ANA (I also don't recall hearing them and most other airlines, too).
Feb 5, 2019, 4:10 pm
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As ANA does not yet operate an Airbus capable of performing the SJC route, I guess it is also a Boeing thing. I don't know if SJC would even be capable of handling the Airbus soon joining the fleet.
Feb 5, 2019, 10:58 pm
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thanks for this! I thought it might be so but all of my experiences of planes with these kind of recorded messages have been a320 family
Feb 6, 2019, 6:54 am
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Most of the Embraer jets operated by regional parters for US carriers use recorded safety announcements. This makes great sense on the 50-seat aircraft, since there is only one FA and they can then do the demo along with the announcement (as opposed to the 50-seat CRJ, where the FA has to put down the microphone and do the demos at the end). The larger Embraer jets also seem to generally have these recorded announcements available.
Feb 6, 2019, 3:33 pm
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Most of the Embraer jets operated by regional parters for US carriers use recorded safety announcements. This makes great sense on the 50-seat aircraft, since there is only one FA and they can then do the demo along with the announcement (as opposed to the 50-seat CRJ, where the FA has to put down the microphone and do the demos at the end). The larger Embraer jets also seem to generally have these recorded announcements available.
Feb 13, 2019, 3:07 pm
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You must not fly AA often. Both domestic and international AA have recorded announcements that are a video played on screen. Even had a comment from an LAA (legacy AA) FA flying on a LUS (legacy US Airways) flight saying that it was real strange for him to have to read announcements because he has never had to do it.
Feb 14, 2019, 1:18 pm
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You must not fly AA often. Both domestic and international AA have recorded announcements that are a video played on screen. Even had a comment from an LAA (legacy AA) FA flying on a LUS (legacy US Airways) flight saying that it was real strange for him to have to read announcements because he has never had to do it.