Now THAT'S comedy.

Thank you , thank you, I'm here all week.

You've got to be kidding me. How much training do you think it takes to make a PA? When I was with Delta, we were given a small book during indoc that had a suggested PA for just about every possible situation one could encounter on the line. It also informed us when, and when not to make PAs. This isn't rocket science.

When I was a FE at Delta, we made all the PAs.......as a FO in a two seat cockpit, the non-flying pilot made the PAs. The only exception would be if the Capt wanted to welcome the pax while we were still sitting at the gate. It's really not a big deal, get over yourself.

You would think, But as a high mins capt. on the 737 we diverted to MKE because ORD was below my mins. While I was calling dispatch on a landline the F/O says " Ladies and gentlemen the captain is not qualified to fly into ORD at this time and when the weather gets better we will continue to ORD". We depated with only half the pax we arrived with.

I just like to keep it simple so let me do it.

EDC, I hope the First bought the rounds that night. Unbelievable!
fbh

I'm gonna start another thread on worst/funniest PA messages from the flight crew.

The few times I have flown Jetblue, the pilots stood up in front of everyone prior to push back and made all their announcements. Kinda face to face. I wonder if thats an SOP?

It was highly encouraged at Independence Air. Not SOP, but it was encouraged. Captains that weren't comfortable doing so, were also encouraged to allow FOs that were to make the welcome aboard announcement. I'd imagine that the similar "policy" is in place at JetBlue.

Yeah that is a boneheaded thing to say. Instead of restricting all of your FO's, how about limiting just the ones that actually have said something stupid. You can't expect all of them to make a mistake.

You're like President Ford, can't speak and write at the same time
 

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"Perhaps I hurt some peoples feelings to suggest that I don’t let the F/O make announcements. But to insure that only the bare legal minimum is spewed over the P.A. , I make the announcements. The guys coming out of the military are not trained and experienced in making many announcements and most airlines or commuters do not give a lot directions in the subject. I also instruct the F/A’s to minimize the announcements on red-eye flights. It’s all about the passenger and if the F/O gets their feelings hurt than I’m sorry. But if they want to chat on channel 9 for an hour then that’s OK.
- I balance it out a little because I do most walk- arounds."


If you think you speak so well, why can't you spell?:)