Pilots saying advertisements during flight
03-02-2015, 12:34 AM
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Having spent quite a bit of time in the back of Horizon airplanes, I can assure it was the flight attendants selling credit cards, and not anyone on the flight deck.
As I understand it, Visa pays the flight attendants a certain amount for every application that gets processed (along with bonuses for "top performers"), so there's a financial incentive for them to hawk the cards, despite the fact that most of the passengers just ignore the pitch or find it annoying.
As I understand it, Visa pays the flight attendants a certain amount for every application that gets processed (along with bonuses for "top performers"), so there's a financial incentive for them to hawk the cards, despite the fact that most of the passengers just ignore the pitch or find it annoying.
03-02-2015, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Sooner91
Heard a captain on an American mainline flight a few months back actually do this.
03-02-2015, 08:39 AM
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This is sort of a pet peev of mine.. we do announcements about that we're ready to push back, announce that we're number 46 for takeoff, now we're number 3 for takeoff.. the FA's follow all of these announcements with theirs, then its the top of climb and top of descent announcements, seat belt announcements in between, credit card announcement, that we're waiting on a gate announcement, that our gate is open and about to go park announcement..
By the time all this is done no wonder why the safety announcement gets tuned out by passengers.. or if we were to announce an impending evacuation, what percent of pax would tune that out like every other one? Each of my previously mentioned announcements are important in their own place, but over the flight as a whole we should be careful about how many we make. The PA should be thought of as an emergency device, because to a degree it is and may need to be used as one... Stuff like credit card sales degrade the value of a PA.
Just my thoughts on credit card PA's.. but then again Visa isn't paying me to make one..
By the time all this is done no wonder why the safety announcement gets tuned out by passengers.. or if we were to announce an impending evacuation, what percent of pax would tune that out like every other one? Each of my previously mentioned announcements are important in their own place, but over the flight as a whole we should be careful about how many we make. The PA should be thought of as an emergency device, because to a degree it is and may need to be used as one... Stuff like credit card sales degrade the value of a PA.
Just my thoughts on credit card PA's.. but then again Visa isn't paying me to make one..
03-02-2015, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by cactusflyer
Having spent quite a bit of time in the back of Horizon airplanes, I can assure it was the flight attendants selling credit cards, and not anyone on the flight deck.
As I understand it, Visa pays the flight attendants a certain amount for every application that gets processed (along with bonuses for "top performers"), so there's a financial incentive for them to hawk the cards, despite the fact that most of the passengers just ignore the pitch or find it annoying.
As I understand it, Visa pays the flight attendants a certain amount for every application that gets processed (along with bonuses for "top performers"), so there's a financial incentive for them to hawk the cards, despite the fact that most of the passengers just ignore the pitch or find it annoying.
03-02-2015, 09:40 AM
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My apologies, it turns out that horizon doesn't have pilots do credit card pushes, but from my further research there are airlines that have their pilots do it.
I draw a sort of parallel between this situation and the situation of John Procter in the play The Crucible. Our "name" as pilots is degraded whenever we agree to repeat such spiels. It is a detriment to the image of the profession. At the end of my life, I want to be able to proudly declare that I was a pilot, not a credit card salesman.
I draw a sort of parallel between this situation and the situation of John Procter in the play The Crucible. Our "name" as pilots is degraded whenever we agree to repeat such spiels. It is a detriment to the image of the profession. At the end of my life, I want to be able to proudly declare that I was a pilot, not a credit card salesman.
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
03-02-2015, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by cactusflyer
Having spent quite a bit of time in the back of Horizon airplanes, I can assure it was the flight attendants selling credit cards, and not anyone on the flight deck.
As I understand it, Visa pays the flight attendants a certain amount for every application that gets processed (along with bonuses for "top performers"), so there's a financial incentive for them to hawk the cards, despite the fact that most of the passengers just ignore the pitch or find it annoying.
As I understand it, Visa pays the flight attendants a certain amount for every application that gets processed (along with bonuses for "top performers"), so there's a financial incentive for them to hawk the cards, despite the fact that most of the passengers just ignore the pitch or find it annoying.
03-02-2015, 04:28 PM
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Bottom line regional pilots will do as they are told and that's the end of it. Look at all the things you put up with today and tell me if they twist your arm a bit you won't do it. Of course you will, that's why you are in this mess to begin with because the majority have no balls.
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