Those safety demonstrations

[Warks]

Having sat through 20 of these in the past month or so I am well and truly over Captain "Hello again" and his forced grimace of a smile.
I still feel guilty enough to watch it each and every time and I recall some time back that everyone on this board claimed to do the same. However when I look around, especially the front half, I see about one in ten watching and that would be generous.

I guess with anything if you've seen it enough you don't want to see it again. However I wonder if more interesting or informative safety demonstration videos may help.

I like this one from Delta which is more detailed than normal but I guess it goes on a bit - would 4.5 minutes be longer than QF? Good luck in Business/First trying to find your lifejacket given the choices of location!
YouTube - Delta's In-flight Safety Video

I think this one would get really annoying although very cute the first time. Not for business travellers.
YouTube - Thomson Airways Safety Video 2009

 

[drewbles]

Having sat through 20 of these in the past month or so I am well and truly over Captain "Hello again" and his forced grimace of a smile.
I still feel guilty enough to watch it each and every time and I recall some time back that everyone on this board claimed to do the same. However when I look around, especially the front half, I see about one in ten watching and that would be generous.

I guess with anything if you've seen it enough you don't want to see it again. However I wonder if more interesting or informative safety demonstration videos may help.

I like this one from Delta which is more detailed than normal but I guess it goes on a bit - would 4.5 minutes be longer than QF? Good luck in Business/First trying to find your lifejacket given the choices of location!
YouTube - Delta's In-flight Safety Video

I think this one would get really annoying although very cute the first time. Not for business travellers.
YouTube - Thomson Airways Safety Video 2009

As much as I dislike generalising, I've noticed a fairly high proportion of people travelling without a FF number on their BP (when i've been unlucky enough to be stuck up the back of the bus or on a full flight where my usually empty seat next to me has been filled by a no status pax) tend to pay attention and a good majority even then pickup the safety card when instructed by the video to look at it.

Whilst every time you are almost certainly sitting in a different seat, you know the drill and if you're a WP, the front is usually the nearest exit (or you're sitting at it!)

 

[auriga]

I totally agree it can be so annoying, even though I am only an occasional leisure traveller!

 

[mannej]

We've all seen this one before

YouTube - Pam Ann does Qantas Safety Check

or this one

YouTube - Chopper Reid On Plane

 

[harvyk]

When you know them pretty much word for word and you are sitting in the exact same seat (on the exact same plane) for the 5th time in a row it can be hard not to want to look out the window.

The thing I love is the overwing exit talk. It's not scripted and it shows. The best one I had was an FA finish with "Don't worry, we're not planning for anything to go wrong". All I could think was "Gee, I'm glad your not planning on crashing the plane".

 

[Bundy Bear]

This is one of my favourite safety videos.

YouTube - Bare essentials of safety from Air New Zealand

 

[Warks]

The thing I love is the overwing exit talk. It's not scripted and it shows. The best one I had was an FA finish with "Don't worry, we're not planning for anything to go wrong". All I could think was "Gee, I'm glad your not planning on crashing the plane".

They didn't have enough PAX to fill four of the six emergency exit row seats on my SYD-CBR flight the other night. I got moved into it after they'd given the talk so I got a "private chat".:mrgreen:

 

[anat0l]

I still listen to all safety demonstrations.

I wouldn't mind QF actually giving a heading as to what they're talking about, so the whole video doesn't come out as one big long speech without break. For example, they could just flash a heading "Seat Belt" or "Emergency Exits" for a few seconds on a panel. That helps people logically break up parts of the safety demo and take it in. Obviously, I'm not advocating a return of the old "checklist" QF safety demo, complete with

Subtly, every aircraft is different.

Now if JQ would take a lead and get rid of their current safety demo!

It stands to surprise some people here, but QF isn't the most boring safety demo in the world. There are worse out there. UA and the Gershwin music is a prime example. The new MH demo is also pretty bad.

There are also longer demos, which aren't necessarily worse.

Southwest joking in demos is OK to listen off-line, but not on board IMO.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I still listen to all safety demonstrations.

I wouldn't mind QF actually giving a heading as to what they're talking about, so the whole video doesn't come out as one big long speech without break. For example, they could just flash a heading "Seat Belt" or "Emergency Exits" for a few seconds on a panel. That helps people logically break up parts of the safety demo and take it in. Obviously, I'm not advocating a return of the old "checklist" QF safety demo, complete with

Subtly, every aircraft is different.

That's why you need to watch this demonstration.

 

[david870mdg]

QF have it easy at just under five minutes.

Try fling with CX, you get eight minutes of cough safety demo, its in two languages so it takes twice as long.
Then Jackie chan comes on and tells you how important unicef and the spare change program is for another three minutes. :evil:

Just when you think it is over, CX decide they need to demonstrate to you how to do in flight stretches on the odd chance that you actually dont know how to get up and walk around or stretch your own body whilst in your seat. Other airline simply publish this in their magazine.
Plus you can choose the stretching video on Studio CX.

This is just excessive rubbish. :!:

After twelve flights with them in the space of two weeks I was ready to smash the IFE console and tear down all the speakers :evil:
Only bad thing about CX.

 

[Warks]

Who remembers "Ladies and gentlemen we're serious about safety that's why we want you to watch as our cabin crew demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft." That pre-dates 'sutterly'. Now it's "Each aircraft is different..."


Does anyone know who the captain in the current video is? I assume he's the equivalent of the guy with the big mo in "Up In The Air".

 

[jsd]

on my last HBA-MEL-BNE-MEL-HBA, I watched it the first time, then I just pretended to watch it the other 3 times, showing some interest to the FAs out of courtesey, way back was all exit rows on a 738, same deal


Only so many times i need to know where my lifejacket is located


Cheers,

Josh

 

[tuppaware]

They are important though!
I like Air NZ one, and of course you cant go past Pam Ann
YouTube - Pam Ann as Gloria Qantas - Spirit of Australia

 

[harvyk]

Try fling with CX, you get eight minutes of cough safety demo, its in two languages so it takes twice as long.

AA are the same, first english and then I assume spanish... They go a few steps further reminding you of the dangers of things like toilet doors opening...

 

[drewbles]

Subtly, every aircraft is different.

Not so anymore, just 'each aircraft type is different'. He's too busy saying "hello again" to remember "subtly"

 

[drewbles]

Who remembers "Ladies and gentlemen we're serious about safety that's why we want you to watch as our cabin crew demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft." That pre-dates 'sutterly'. Now it's "Each aircraft is different..."


Does anyone know who the captain in the current video is? I assume he's the equivalent of the guy with the big mo in "Up In The Air".

There was a thread somewhere here or FT about that. Someone met the captain of his flight to have that guy come out and say to him "Hello Again". I guess it's a bit of a joke for him

 

[david870mdg]

AA are the same, first english and then I assume spanish... They go a few steps further reminding you of the dangers of things like toilet doors opening...

Yeh AA goes for quite some time and the FAs (dinasours) just stand around pretending to care.

LAN also does both English and Spanish with FAs standing idle at the front.

 

[serfty]

I went though a phase in the late 90's when I ignored it.

These days I do watch, making a point of it and identifying/checking the location of my life jacket.

As for the "Hello again" one, I am still waiting for the Guy in "2F" to sit down ...

... he never quite makes it ... ever

 

[drewbles]

I think it should be changed to "Every time you fly, you are likely to suddenly develop split-personality disorder" rather than you are likely to be sitting in a different seat. I can't say i've had me divide whilst walking down the aisle to take a seat

 

[737]

Watching the safety demo also makes the F/A not feel like a total fool by doing the demo to a bunch of people reading their newspapers!

But in all seriousness, it can't be a bad thing to refresh your memory. If you aren't taking notice of your surroundings, you could go from a 767-338, to a -336, or from a 738 to a 734, or A330-200, to a -300 and there are 'subtle' but important difference to those.

That is why as F/A's, every time that we switch to a different variant of an aircraft, we get briefed on the difference between the a/c so that we are familiar with our surroundings.

Our safety demo is our version on briefing you on the differences