Music during landing
Mar 16, 2012, 1:51 pm
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Music during landing
Flew into YVR yesterday on the BA0085. During decent and landing, the lighting was "dimmed" on the upper deck (actually turned off), and classical music was played from about 5 minutes before landing, until the terminal and a reasonable volume.
Is this a new thing or have I not been paying attention?
Is this a new thing or have I not been paying attention?
Mar 16, 2012, 2:42 pm
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Flew into YVR yesterday on the BA0085. During decent and landing, the lighting was "dimmed" on the upper deck (actually turned off), and classical music was played from about 5 minutes before landing, until the terminal and a reasonable volume.
Is this a new thing or have I not been paying attention?
Is this a new thing or have I not been paying attention?
Mar 16, 2012, 2:47 pm
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Mar 16, 2012, 4:20 pm
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I really like when classical music is played during boarding, and on disembarking.
I find it adds a touch of class to British Airways and takes the edge off a time that some people might be used to being stressful from experiences with other airlines (LCCs in particular)
I hope BA encourages music on boarding, although I know the likes of mikey boy (sorry can't find bold on the mobile site) doesn't like the music at all.
But me, I like it
(although I've never heard it on descent - wouldn't like it so much then!)
I really like when classical music is played during boarding, and on disembarking.
I find it adds a touch of class to British Airways and takes the edge off a time that some people might be used to being stressful from experiences with other airlines (LCCs in particular)
I hope BA encourages music on boarding, although I know the likes of mikey boy (sorry can't find bold on the mobile site) doesn't like the music at all.
But me, I like it
(although I've never heard it on descent - wouldn't like it so much then!)
Mar 16, 2012, 5:10 pm
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A proportion of all pax are going to find any music an unwelcome intrusion, whatever the genre or volume, whereas it can be assumed no pax are actively upset by an absence of music. Therefore it is clearly preferable to have no music. Unfortunately airlines seem to feel a need to inflict noise pollution on us all. At least BA's is relatively tolerable. I stopped using Virgin Atlantic years ago because of the racket in the cabin.
Mar 17, 2012, 1:12 pm
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I had the misfortune to fly monarch recently to TFS, on approach they play an "aspirational" video & matching music showing a family enjoying the monarch "experience". The music was really loud aswell, as if to emphasise the point being hemmed in with no legroom was something to be savoured...
Mar 17, 2012, 3:18 pm
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Beardy played Adele's Rolling in the Deep on finals into LHR on my last VS flight. I enjoyed it, but 'Ride of the Valkyries' would've been awesome.
Mar 18, 2012, 2:59 am
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Not a Standard Operating Procedure, no, but it does happen. I heard the CSD say to a colleagues "let's put some music on" when we had a difficult boarding in Warsaw a few weeks ago and the captain was about to announce a LHR slot issue.
It was a much more common occurence in the past, particularly when Malcolm McLaren's and Yanni's Aria on Air was the sound of British Airways. I well recall, with some horror, it being played on approach to LHR, and though it may have been a coincidence, the captain touched down precisely on the first note of the first bar after the song's bridge. Probably a bit naff to do it now, but we are talking 1990 or thereabouts.
It was a much more common occurence in the past, particularly when Malcolm McLaren's and Yanni's Aria on Air was the sound of British Airways. I well recall, with some horror, it being played on approach to LHR, and though it may have been a coincidence, the captain touched down precisely on the first note of the first bar after the song's bridge. Probably a bit naff to do it now, but we are talking 1990 or thereabouts.
Mar 18, 2012, 5:07 am
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A proportion of all pax are going to find any music an unwelcome intrusion, whatever the genre or volume, whereas it can be assumed no pax are actively upset by an absence of music. Therefore it is clearly preferable to have no music. Unfortunately airlines seem to feel a need to inflict noise pollution on us all. At least BA's is relatively tolerable. I stopped using Virgin Atlantic years ago because of the racket in the cabin.
Mar 18, 2012, 7:10 am
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