100% agreed. If you MUST impress the pax with your metar reading skills, do it before pushback. In flight, be quiet.

 

I'll keep this brief.

It's funny to read how many times posters above have taken the opportunity to agree completely with a previous poster, and add more, to reiterate that we don't need to talk so much and we certainly don't need to duplicate what has already been said by someone else over the PA because really, people, no cares about what you're saying and even if you start by saying you'll keep it brief you probably aren't actually capable of that so please don't try, trust me I have ridden in the cabin before and made these observations before, that I'm not sure you have made because you probably don't pay attention during a dead head like I do, even though I don't want to pay attention to you, which is kind of my point, and I'm probably one of the better analyzers of what people want to hear and how they want to hear it because they really all want the same thing from the flight deck, although you should really call it a cockpit since everyone knows that's what it is, and since everyone wants the same thing it's kind of odd that I need to tell you that, since you must be the only outlier that doesn't understand I just want to watch my darn movie, but not the one on my own device because then I'd miss the announcements, none of which will contain the proper content or be spoken at the proper cadence, so I wouldn't know how to give you proper feedback on an anonymous bulletin board to fix that whole mess.

 

Call signs only please

 

In another life, as a DCI guy, I could've sworn I read somewhere on Deltanet that DL has/had guidance for PA "curfew/silence/blackout" if you will, from the flight crew depending on hour of the day. Is this still a thing?

At my current gig I've seen guys make PA's after a 5hr+ redeye landing in the morning before the sun comes up and I just think it's a bit much, especially when the FAs already have their requisite mandatory PA. To each his own I guess.

*Apologies for adding to the thread drift

 

We have PA quiet hours spelled out in the FOM. During those hours, only the minimum required is supposed to be done.

 

Which, IMO, is still far too much.

 

From the FA side, yes. For us, it's just "flight attendants, please prepare the cabin for arrival"

I personally always do the seatbelt sign protocol on my welcome aboard at the gate. Only if it's an urgent, no kidding be seated will I make any further PA in flight in regard to it at any hour.

 

Ah so I read it right. Wish we'd implement that policy here as it makes perfect sense.

 

Had my Bose headset installed.

Did somebody say something?

 

Last year, I was on a flight from KSEA to PAFA, as a full fare pax.

Super Duper Airbus Captain George, wasted about 5 to 10 minutes of my life which I won’t get back (2 minutes or less on flight details and the rest was devoted to his undistinguished flying career) interrupting the IFE.

Less said is more said.