Nothing from the flight deck
 

On my flight home today not a single word from the flight deck. It is amazing how crews differ in their communications. Back in the good old days of flying you would even get a mention where the aircraft was on the route. I would think you should get a hello and a good by, thanks for flying with us.

Believe it or not folks complain about to much chat from the flight deck & just maybe this crew has had complaints & decided to "zip it". Who knows for sure other than them

You would of thought they'd say a hello or a thanks for flying with you.

What, the FA's saying it at the beginning and end of the flight and the half dozen spam emails from the airline and the booking site saying the same thing aren't enough? I don't need everyone and their dog to say thank you. I need them to do their job, not be servile and simpering.

I would seriously wish it was like this on every flight.

On short flights there is basically constant talk. Some parts are necessary (safety announcements - and even those could be shortened), but the least thing I need is a talkative purser/first officer chatting away for minutes, and then repating everything in bad English...

Generally the less chatter the better, but I do appreciate a quick heads up on weather at destination and local time as the plane starts its descent.

Worst thing is flights that repeat the announcements and safety videos in multiple languages.. oh, and interrupt whatever you are watching on the IFE to make you watch a video to tell you about how the IFE works... I already have that one sorted thanks!

Less is better!

Nothing from the flight deck
 

Why the weather? I have two eyes and have already packed what I am bringing on the trip.

Sounds like Chinese airline.

I haven't been on a plane sans headphones in years. I wouldn't notice whether they talked or not.

I'm of the Seinfeld mentality here too...

Just get me to where it says on the ticket, you don't need to know what I'm doing back here and I don't need to know what you're doing up there.

If something is WRONG, I definitely wanna know. But man, especially up here in Canada, you hear it once in English, then again in French. I'm always glad to get to Colombia where the announcements are just in Spanish. Except now Avianca is doing all the videos in kinda crappy English too :( I wish they had contracted me to do it! I woulda done it for 1 free flight!

That depends whether its domestic or international. I found that generally, on domestic flights within China, you won't get a word from the cockpit. It's the FAs who do the talking and the announcement. Not that it made much of a difference, since most of the time you won't understand a word of their English anyway. ;)

But for international flights to-and-from China, the pilots will say one or two things, nothing special or out of the ordinary, just the usual "hello, thank you for flying with us" standard speech. So I don't think there is a huge difference either way.

The only thing I want to hear from the front office is a brief 'hello, my name is Capt. Dick Swinger, thanks for flying Big Sky Air' and 'flight time is around x hours and y minutes'. The lower the x and y are, the better ;)

I'd like to know the expected flight duration

Definitely the most important piece of information they can provide.