in-flight entertainment
July 11, 2009
Just have a look at the posts by others on facebook, and one of those by Chet Lam just made me think of an interesting encounter I had on a flight to Borocay years ago.
The youtube clip posted was about a flight attendant doing raps, and most of the passangers apparently enjoyed that a lot. It’s like the time I went to the Philippines, and the flight attendants were singing together with most of the passangers most of whom were of the same race. They laughed, danced and chatted together like a family, and I could see they all enjoyed the flight a lot. At the end of the journey, they even had lucky draw and the prizes were some restaurant coupons to be used in the town centre in Manila.
I quite like the ideas of providing another type of entertainment on the flight esp long haul ones for passangers on board. Taking planes esp those without in-flight entertainment facilities could be extremely boring, and interactive activities like singing and lucky draw can really bring interest to passengers. Anyhow, I was really impressed and believed that Filippinos were one of the happiest people in the world despite their poverty.
However, I doubt whether airlines companies based in Hong Kong like Cathay can do something like this. First of all, Chinese people are mostly timid and introverted. Moreover, the attitude of most of the flight attendants in Hong Kong are far from satisfactory. Perhaps it’s time for the airlines companies to think about some other more interactive form of entertainment with a personal touch for their passengers; otherwise their unreasonably high ticket price with poor service will eventually scare off the public amid such a global economic recession.
