New Safety Video
Feb 14, 2019, 10:43 am
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Feb 14, 2019, 11:22 am
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Feb 14, 2019, 11:35 am
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Hard to say who is right or wrong but I wouldn't say the US carriers are lackadaisical.
Feb 14, 2019, 11:44 am
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And how many customers were injured due to turbulence percentage wise on BA compared to customers on US airlines?
I don’t think the CAA is perfect by any means but I do find the US carries and therefore the FAA less passenger safety focussed.
I don’t think the CAA is perfect by any means but I do find the US carries and therefore the FAA less passenger safety focussed.
Feb 14, 2019, 12:05 pm
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It's on other airlines too now, easyJet (in some ways more of a safety stickler than BA), Ryanair, Vueling, Loganair, BMI and I think Iberia do it now too, to greater or lesser degree of emphasis.
Feb 14, 2019, 12:30 pm
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Must be an EASA thing... in the safety training we had at Lufthansa they said its required so in the unlikely case of an evacuation you are no disoriented when you evacuate or fail to notice that it is not safe to exit the aircraft on that particular side.
Feb 14, 2019, 2:59 pm
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An example the other way, virtually every flight on a US carrier the seat belt sign is left on until reaching initial cruise, on BA its usually off around 12K feet. The slightest turbulence on the US majors results in the seat belt light coming on, less so on the international carriers.
If the US airlines were to adopt the same approach as Qantas does to the seat belt sign (all cabin crew must stop service and take their own seats whenever the seat belt sign is on), we might find it being used more appropriately. But over-use is as poor and dangerous as underuse (which is the source of my personal disagreement with the Qantas approach, one that is not as far as I can tell mandated by the Australian regulator).
Feb 14, 2019, 9:03 pm
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I don't think that is true, maybe the FAA doesn't think it is a safety issue. An example the other way, virtually every flight on a US carrier the seat belt sign is left on until reaching initial cruise, on BA its usually off around 12K feet. The slightest turbulence on the US majors results in the seat belt light coming on, less so on the international carriers. The one area where I think BA is correct with regards to safety is no bags under the seat in front in exit rows, the US majors allow this.
Hard to say who is right or wrong but I wouldn't say the US carriers are lackadaisical.
Hard to say who is right or wrong but I wouldn't say the US carriers are lackadaisical.
It does not make anything safer, especially as most people start ignoring it 5 minutes in to the flight. If you cry wolf all the time how is a passenger to know when it is actually worth paying attention.
Feb 15, 2019, 3:09 am
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What really winds me up about the current video is that the lady who's very interested in seat belts can't actually pronounce "seat belt" ... it's more like "sea bell”. I know that for native English speakers then that's probably OK, but for those for whom English isn't the first language, it's not great 
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Feb 25, 2019, 2:53 am
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Feb 25, 2019, 4:05 am
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as noted by globaliser over use of seatbelt signs is a particularly stupid policy on us airlines, more related to avoiding lawsuits than safety.
It does not make anything safer, especially as most people start ignoring it 5 minutes in to the flight. If you cry wolf all the time how is a passenger to know when it is actually worth paying attention.
From the Reno Gazette Journal
”A Delta Air Lines flight en route from California to Washington State was forced to make an emergency landing in Reno on Wednesday after five passengers were injured due to severe turbulence”
This is a good example of poor practice I think. The FAA had warned airlines of dangerous conditions over the Sierra Nevada, and yet the airline felt it OK to have the beverage carts out with this result.
Sep 4, 2019, 7:24 am
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On BA460 today and the safety video seems to have changed to a third comic relief version including a mixture clips from the original and second version. At the start it even had a Star Wars style ‘version 3’ introduction. Anyone else seen this change?
Sep 4, 2019, 7:31 am
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At least Gandalf is back
