pinniped

6 to 8 announcements? That's about twice a quarter for a game between two defensive teams that weren't exactly headed for a 45-42 score.

I can just imagine some of the announcements... "Hey everyone, it's still 7-7, just like it was a few minutes ago. There have been two punts since the last time I updated you all... Two really nice, interesting spirally punts..."

Not much different from Europeans' cravings for rugby or soccer or Indians' cravings for cricket. I've heard those types of inflight PA announcements too. In almost any part of the world, there's probably some pilot somewhere who will give passengers a sports score on occasion.

dcpatti

Let's hope the OP never flies on NZ while the All Blacks are playing in the playoffs. Kiwis love their rugby, and NZ loves the All Blacks.

dchristiva

OK with me, especially on a flight from LAX to JFK.

I'm willing to bet that the airline was simply trying to cater to the real or perceived majority. No harm, no foul. And nothing that some earplugs wouldn't have alleviated.

As I've said before, I don't leave my personal happiness in the hands of the airline.

PTravel

I always fly with my Bose and listen to music. However, even with them on and music playing, I can still hear that an announcement is being made, though I can't make out the contents. For me, this is even worse, because it causes me to remove the headphones to see if the announcement relates to something important.

amolkold

"Wanna get away?"

jyh

Consider yourself lucky. You can hear. I can't hear any announcements. It all just sounds garbled to me.

ralfp

If airlines want pax to listen to announcements from the flight deck, especially safety-related announcements, then perhaps announcements not related to the flight should be kept to a minimum. The occasional "Look to the left... it's really pretty." is one thing; 10+ "announcements" about totally irrelevant topics will teach pax to ignore announcements from the flight deck.

Seriously? It's the responsibility of non-fanatics to know the schedules for all sports that they do not follow?

How about "Sorry, you booked a on the division playoff's [sic] for the two teams who would be going to the superbowl." .... "If you cared about real-time updates for that event, perhaps you should have booked a flight at another time."

Or how about using channel 9 to have the pilot or copilot relay the play-by-play info (I have no idea is this is permitted, it's just an idea).

Half? Really?

Even if true, UA p.s. has WiFi (AFAIK). If you care enough to know the outcome of a game played between employees of two corporations, then maybe you should buy that service (or have the sense to book a different flight).

cordelli

Sorry, I must have missed where the OP said they had no clue they were flying from one division play off city to another division play off city on the day of the game. Though it really doesn't matter if they knew or not, they should still expect updates during major events like playoff's, superbowl, world series, world cup, etc.

That's good to know about United's PS flights.

Not really sure why that applies here, since it was not a United Flight, but I suppose that's good information for people flying United who want to get online when they do fly.

I missed the poll results where the number of people who wanted to hear the score was posted. I'm assuming on a flight from one playoff teams city to another's during the game it's going to be half the plane.

One could only imagine what the OP would have posted if they were on a flight with live TV and half (yes, I'm saying half) the plane was watching the game in real time screaming every play.

jaesun

I'm sure you read the minds and took a survey from everyone in the plane for you all to be complaining about this. You guys so uptight about hearing announcements now?

In one ear, out the other. Life still goes on, wouldn't you believe it?

there are about 1000 things in life that are a minor annoyance. Lets all go post on forums about every single one of them.

I imagine that estimation is better than "most of the plane obviously didn't want to hear it", as if he knew for sure

nerd

If there were 6-8 announcements, none of them would have been about punts.

nerd

Dupe - doh!

hedur

Since you weren't on the plane and the OP was, his is the opinion that holds more weight here.

Very good point.

I wonder how the football fanatics trying to justify the excessive announcements would feel about just as many updates given during the finale of "The Bachelor". After all, it's a popular show...

cordelli

There were seven scoring changes in the Giants game, nine in the early game

jaesun

obviously, generalizing the population on the plane holds weight. I mean, he did take a survey of everyone on the plane on whether or not they all agreed with him or not. He also must have been in the front of the plane, sitting backwards, because, being near the back of the plane or facing forward trying to rest, how would he see the other passengers' reactions? And, we all react to minor annoyances the same as everyone else. Makes gauging their reactions more reliable. And for those that visibly reacted negatively, he did a followup survey to make sure it was displeasure from the PA announcement, rather than a possible displease from the score.

and lastly, the FA's must have been blind and deaf. Cuz only he saw the displeasure on the plane. Damn those blind FA's
^

hedur

Since he was there and you were not his opinion on the desire of the passengers holds more weight than yours. How is that difficult to understand?

We, as humans, have these things called "necks" and they actually allow you to turn and see what's behind you. Fascinating, no?

And you obviously personally spoke to the FA's to know that none of them saw any displeasure on the plane, right?

Gimme a break.