Applauding after touchdown

Bemused, I agree with you about the Easyjet tv show. I don’t watch it any more for the same reason. It’s all staged for the cameras anyway. If a member of the public was shouting and abusing any memeber of ground staff at the checkin or customer service desks the way they do on the tv show they would be removed by security until they had calmed down. If there is any kind of problem the tv producers make a huge drama out of it and even tell the people involved what they want them to say, without the shouting nobody would watch it, it’s all about tv ratings!!!!!

We bumped TWO times at the landing, finally landing for the thrid touch. The pilot got a bit agressive because the plane bounced, which resulted in landing together with the nose and main wheels at the same time

wooooww, that was rough !!!

And when I arrived back from LEI in BRU, passengers constantly clapped when the plane stopped, and it stopped a lot of times! Some passengers also stood up everytime the plane stopped. We bumped TWO times at the landing, finally landing for the thrid touch. The pilot got a bit agressive because the plane bounced, which resulted in landing together with the nose and main wheels at the same time. That was the last time I flew Sobelair, 734 OO-SLW.

In the summer i fly around 32 per month on average.Out of that mabye 3 or 4 of those sectors will get a round of applause.However more often than not its either due to a bumpy approach,heavy landing or hard breaking.You can see the concern on people’s faces and then when the a/c slows the relief and thats when most of the time you get the applause.Don’t get me wrong though if the f/d do grease it in then they also get some applause.The latter is not very often though. :rolleyes:

IF they were hacking ur account they usually change password first!

I’ve heard it a few times on flights but on some flights more people do it than others. When we landed at LGW from RMI on a MYT A320 (OY-CNR) the landing was really really soft and the plane just seemed to glide onto the runway (althougth there was very excessive braking afterwards) and more people than ever (almost everyone) clapped at the excellent landing. I don’t know if it was anbything to do with the Captain being female or not.

When we landed at VCE on BY 762 G-BRIF the landing was very very hard and the plane was swerving like mad but people still clapped anyway. Maybe because they were worried but we landed safely.

On a few EZY and GO flights a few odd people have clapped but it didn’t catch on so they didn’t bother and it was silent. The landings wern’t fantastic though but it wasn’t as if the crew had done a bad job though.

Never heard of the thing! Its a bit stupid isn’t it? If they aren’t sure if they will live or die why don’t they just stay at home!

That was a joke NCLRULES, obviously a bad attempt, i’ll let you off for not noticing this time!

I think they clap a lot after take off out of the middle-east, and they scream wohoo we’ve made it.

When I came back from Stansted to Newcastle in November, the flight was delayed for over an hour, when we landed in NCL, everyone clapped!

Only once has there been ‘proper’ applause and that was after landing at YYZ from GLA in a Canada 3000 A332 back in July 1998.

I’ve only heard applause once before with Britannia in 2001.

I think people only starting clapping and cheering because the female pilot got us down in the Dominican Republic in one piece!

Abusing or shouting at the airline’s staff is not just pointless and wrong but it could cost your your seat, or a future ban. Even if a delay is the airline’s fault is hardly the cabin crew or check-in staff’s fault is it?

wow….i’ve been a few hours away and i have so many replies !!!
honestly I enjoy applauding, once i was on a CSA Czech Airlines flight from Prague to Beirut, and even though it was a very rough landing, everyone on the plane was applauding and even one man was shouting: BRAVO CAPTAIN BRAVO !!! Now that’s a good mood !!! 😀
by the way, nice stories guys !!

It made me laugh so much when I had the 3 hour delay with MyTravel from Malaga last year, when the Check In Agent told us it was due ‘Air Traffic Control Problems’… Never heard so much rubbish in my life. I can’t believe she said this despite all the arrivals boards behind her showing all the flights from the UK been on time. At least the TCX crew were honest telling us MYT had had technical problems. Things like that annoy me when you are kept in the dark, but I understand most delays are completely out of the airlines control.

On the clapping issue, I used to hear it all the time on charter flights up to a few years ago, and now it seems to have vanished.

I think a lot of people hurl abuse when delayed because they don’t know why the delay has been caused and assume they’re being kept in the dark or bullsh*tted by the ground staff.

I often think an honest explanation of the delay would help to shut up a lot of the moaners?

I completely agree about an honest explanation being the best. The problem is that 9 times out of 10 the passengers are given an honest explanantion (bad weather, aircraft gone tech etc.) and they still think they’re being fobbed off and so continue to hurl abuse at the agents.

I think a lot of people hurl abuse when delayed because they don’t know why the delay has been caused and assume they’re being kept in the dark or bullsh*tted by the ground staff.

I often think an honest explanation of the delay would help to shut up a lot of the moaners?

I would agree with that Sandy. That’s why it annoys me so much when people get really angry about delays. Most of the time there’s absolutely nothing more the airline or staff can do. They are trying their best to get the flight out as soon as possible and people just hurl abuse at them. I too always make a point of thanking the crew when I leave the aircraft as they definitely deserve more recognition than they get.

Oh don’t start me with pax complaining about delays.
I watched an episode of airline last night. It featured an EZY flight that was delayed for over 4 hours (ok, that is a bit of a while) and a replacement aicraft was flown in. Now why the staff were looking for a crew, pax were hurling abuse at them, telling them they couldn’t do their jobs. Basically calling them incompetent. Eventually, the duty manager simply used an EZY aicraft that was at stand and ready for a different flight. She put those pax on and off they went.

At the end of that episode, I was ready to hunt those ungrateful F**Ks down and kill em. Cally the ground staff incompetent when they were doing all they could. GRRRRRRRRR

indeed 😀

I personaly haven’t overheard anyone complaining on a flight but If I should, I’d be the first person the lecture them on the “behinds the scenes” aspects of the job, ie the stress hiding behind that smile on the F/A’s face.

I would agree with that Sandy. That’s why it annoys me so much when people get really angry about delays. Most of the time there’s absolutely nothing more the airline or staff can do. They are trying their best to get the flight out as soon as possible and people just hurl abuse at them. I too always make a point of thanking the crew when I leave the aircraft as they definitely deserve more recognition than they get.

I’ve seen it happen on charter flights to and from Tenerife after a perfectly normal flight and landing. It’s like, ‘were you expecting us to crash or something?’. It seems like a bit of an insult to the crew’s professionalism!

I think many charter passengers do it when they arrive in their holiday destination to mark the fact that they are ‘officially on holiday’.

Sorry Sandy, I took it as read that you appreciate what goes on to get from A to B (and probably prefer it if it goes via C, D and E!).

indeed 😀

I personaly haven’t overheard anyone complaining on a flight but If I should, I’d be the first person the lecture them on the “behinds the scenes” aspects of the job, ie the stress hiding behind that smile on the F/A’s face.