orbitmic

florens

Oxon Flyer

I’ll raise your seen-it-a-few-times-now descriptor to “grating”.

710 77345

There are English subtitles available already. Th-andie vs Thandi a real highlight. Hopefully the foreign ones come soon.

Saltire74

Discus

The of a safety-video must be for people to learn and remember - this video is not in that category! The safety message does not get through here.

As a non-Brit I found the first view only slightly entertaining, but since connecting in London I have to watch it four times on a return-trip I am really bored and getting tired of it. I always try to see the safety-videos when flying, but I can't stand this anymore. I would guess that is not the intention of the safety-video. It is really way to long and messy in my view, and as a non native English speaker all the noise takes away the important massage. When the video have finished, I really don't have a clear view of what the important things are. There are no illustrations of aircraft-exists, opening of doors etc. so really no visuals to remember. I really think someone have forgotten that BA have a lot of international passengers, both from a cultural perspective and from a language-perspective.

The old one was not super-cool, funny or entertaining, but contained audible and visual effects that could be remembered, and was not annoying in any way so I could easily just watch it several times.

bwaflyer

Well, the good news for those of us who have to stand in the aisle inwardly cringing four times a day listening to this drivel, the A32x neos and the re configured ceos (current A320 / A321 with the space flex galley / loo combo at the back, and even more seats) is that the video system is being taken off, so it'll be manual demo every flight.

catandmouse

I'm a Brit but haven't lived in the UK for 30 years and have to some extent lost contact. Unfortunately the safety video looks to me as though it contains a pile of characters I'm supposed to be familiar with, but don't mean anything to me.
As others say, it's OK once, maybe twice, but it pretty quickly becomes most boring.
I find the Brussels airlines video rather fun and have sit through that one more frequently than BA.
My own feeling is that any safety video would have more impact if it were shorter and limited to the essentials. Luggage stowage, seat belt, oxygen mask, life-belt. Forget all the rest. I'm sure 90% switch off after 30 seconds.

G-BUSI

I guess this means no moving map then?

bwaflyer

I'm afraid not, but I'll hold up a map at the back of the high life magazine and slowly draw a line during the flight! Mfcc has posted more updates about the neos in a separate thread. Very interesting as I haven' had my training yet.

Can I help you

All screams cheap to me.

corporate-wage-slave

One of the A318 pilots does that. Or rather, he draws up a line on a copy of the map with a pen, and then sticks it on one of the partitions.

tuff

I am fed up of it now but there were quite a few chuckles from passengers yesterday on my flight to Gran Canaria.

ILikePancakes

Having had to suffer through it yet again recently, I'm hoping it's going to die a death soon. The stewardess reminded us to count our blessings; we don't get to see it nearly as often as she does!!

BlueThroughCrimp