No More Bilingual Cabin Announcements on United?
Sep 18, 2012 | 6:16 pm
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I could see United not offering Dutch-speaking cabin crew on its AMS flights. According to Eurostat, 91% of Netherlands citizens speak English well enough for conversation.
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Sep 18, 2012 | 6:22 pm
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Its not too surprising that as United struggles to get planes out on time (if at all) they also struggle to make sure the appropriate language qualified flight crews are onboard the right flights. One would hope that if and when United improves operating performance that this issue would also improve.
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Sep 18, 2012 | 6:57 pm
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On sCO operated flights foreign language speakers are staffed on flights to:
MAD, BCN, NRT, PVG, PEK, HKG, FRA, MUC, TXL, CDG, LIS, TLV, GRU, GIG, EZE, MXP, FCO. As well as the various latin american flights have spanish speakers onboard.
MAD, BCN, NRT, PVG, PEK, HKG, FRA, MUC, TXL, CDG, LIS, TLV, GRU, GIG, EZE, MXP, FCO. As well as the various latin american flights have spanish speakers onboard.
Sep 18, 2012 | 6:57 pm
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UA 23 DUB-EWR had announcements in English today. I was looking forward to hearing Irish Gaelic, but at least the announcements were in Continentalese. I especially appreciated being welcomed aboard as a OnePass member.
Sep 18, 2012 | 7:25 pm
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Flew 2 weeks ago from SIN-NRT-HNL. All announcements were made in English, Japanese, and Chinese! Do you know how much talking that is???????? FA's went on and on and on. I swear they were still talking about the safety features of the aircraft when we started our decent.
Sep 18, 2012 | 7:33 pm
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Just curious how often do you fly UA overseas that doesn't have language FA making bilingual announcements ? Or you just made an assumption only base on OP's comment on one flight ? Not to mention, even there are no bilingual announcements on a particular flight, that doesn't mean there are no language FA on board
Unless you mean UA puts the wrong language FAs on flights, which would be totally expected in this airline.
Sep 18, 2012 | 7:33 pm
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Of course, my flight yesterday from Central America was in Spanish, as has always been the case on both UA and CO.
Sep 18, 2012 | 7:49 pm
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Slighty OT, but I was on an IAH-MSY flight a few days ago operated by an LAX-based pmUA crew and the flight attendent made announcements in English and Japanese. For the life of me, I can't imagine why, as I didn't see any obvious Japanese-speaking passengers on the flight. I guess it was for the benefit of my wife, who is bilingual.
PMUA didn't serve Central America. They did years ago, but they haven't for a while.
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Sep 18, 2012 | 8:29 pm
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Portuguese on all my flights EWR>LIS in the last few months. And Dutch on my EWR>AMS. YMMV I guess.
Slightly disappointed they don't offer the take-off/landing announcements in Klingon though for those of us fluent in the tongue.
Slightly disappointed they don't offer the take-off/landing announcements in Klingon though for those of us fluent in the tongue.
Sep 18, 2012 | 9:12 pm
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Sep 18, 2012 | 9:31 pm
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The FA might be fluent in Dutch which is why u had a Dutch speaking FA making announcements however there is no actual Dutch speaker staffed on the AMS flights on the sCO side. EWR - AMS has 1 ISM 5 FAs IAH - AMS has 1 ISM 9 FAs.