On winter flights to the sun and warmth I've heard Canadians do it when the plane lands. I've also heard sporadic clapping after a go around.

I've been through a few go arounds. No big deal most of the time.

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The United EWR-ORD flight flew westbound past Green Bay, Wisconsin, then headed south, past east of Madison, into Illinois, east from there and joined the familiar U-turn over Lake Michigan coming from the west.

Map made me do a double take. California 11 used to be the Harbor Freeway between San Pedro and Pasadena. Apparently it got recycled...

When I was on a flight that did a go around, afterwards I joked with the pilots that it was such a short flight they were padding the flight time. They just laughed.

In this case it was due to a plane on the same runway that was taking longer than ATC expected.

On my go-around people clapped right when we touched down but it was VERY premature. We still had to brake much harder than usual and I was far from at ease (as I mentioned in the thread I linked, the lady behind me threw up). I was envisioning sliding off the end of runway... all to the sound of applause.

I’ve been through several go-arounds but SAN was the only place where the pilots actually prepared us in advance. On approach, the pilot explained the conditions (I think it was wind) and that if we approached too far down the runway that we’d do a go-around

How much goosepower does a jet engine have anyway?

Now I'm kinda bothered that 100 years ago we didn't standardize goosepower as a measure for aircraft engines. Horsepower for cars. Goosepower for planes.

RC DC9s were rated at two goosepower. Tail said so.

Flight crew tend to follow the unwritten rules....aviate, navigate, communicate.

A go around can be a very busy time in the cockpit, between reversing everything they've done to get the plane onto the ground to getting in touch with ATC, etc. so communicating with passengers is the last thing on the list of to-dos at that moment in time...

I've done a bunch of go-rounds, probably about ten (multiple ones on the same flight is a rare one for me but has happened) and it's usually been weather related or because the aircraft in front hasn't vacated the runway in time.

More often than not no reason is ever given but on the times it has it was usually on the taxi in once off the runway.

How can I put this gently....it depends on the route and the demographic of your passengers