In-flight announcements

[hybridace101]

Just curious because in the MNL-SIN flight and return, only English was used for announcements. However I understand other flights such as those involving NRT or KIX, they use Japanese. Do you know the other routes that use a 2nd or 3rd language?

[spw21]

They make announcements in Swiss-German on Zurich flights. Same goes for Paris and Frankfurt (on most of my flights, at least)

[feb01mel]

All Japanese flights will have Japanese announcements.

Paris- French announcements
Frankfurt - German announcements
Zurich - Swiss annoucements
Korea - Korean announcements
All Hong Kong, Taipei & China flights - Chinese announcements

Can anyone else confirm for India flights if there are Indian announcements? Similarly how about for Rome, Milan (Italian) and Barcelona (Spanish) ?

[hybridace101]

How about South East Asian flights besides MNL (which is understandable considering English is widely understood there)? And does SIN-HKG use Mandarin or Cantonese?

[LionCity]

How about South East Asian flights besides MNL (which is understandable considering English is widely understood there)? And does SIN-HKG use Mandarin or Cantonese?

SIN - HKG uses Mandarin. Surprising considering the number of Cantonese speakers particularly for the more Senior Singaporeans or Malaysian FAs they have.

Mandarin is easy for me to understand though.

[mr_botak]

KUL used to be in Malay. I don't recall if it still is.

[fuu99]

All Japanese flights will have Japanese announcements.

Paris- French announcements
Frankfurt - German announcements
Zurich - Swiss annoucements
Korea - Korean announcements
All Hong Kong, Taipei & China flights - Chinese announcements

Can anyone else confirm for India flights if there are Indian announcements? Similarly how about for Rome, Milan (Italian) and Barcelona (Spanish) ?

Are these made by actual crew or are they pre-recorded?

On my AMS flight, the announcements were all pre-recorded in Dutch. On the flight from FRA, there was a Singapore Boy who made announcements in German, though it sounded quite weird because of his accent. Some of the Germans would rather speak English.

[astroboy]

Indian flights - Hindi or Tamil (depending on station)
Indonesian flights - Bahasa Indonesia

[astroboy]

Are these made by actual crew or are they pre-recorded?

On my AMS flight, the announcements were all pre-recorded in Dutch. On the flight from FRA, there was a Singapore Boy who made announcements in German, though it sounded quite weird because of his accent. Some of the Germans would rather speak English.

There are French and German speaking FAs who will make the translations on those relevant sectors. No Dutch, Spanish, Italian at the moment though..

[feb01mel]

I recalled Moscow flights also have Russian pre-recorded announcements.

[pavion]

The last time I went on SQ to India, afaik it were the Indian crew making the Indian announcement, as it wasn't perfect

[hybridace101]

I am guessing the German announcement here is most likely live as it does not appear to be performed by a native speaker, which normally is featured on a pre-recorded announcement.

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[SINFJ]

KUL used to be in Malay. I don't recall if it still is.

yes KUL still has the Tuan Tuan dan Puan Puan thingy

[Pinkfloyd]

Are these made by actual crew or are they pre-recorded?

On my AMS flight, the announcements were all pre-recorded in Dutch. On the flight from FRA, there was a Singapore Boy who made announcements in German, though it sounded quite weird because of his accent. Some of the Germans would rather speak English.

Never come across my SQ flights to AMS having any announcements in Dutch...

[Trinick]

I recall a flight FRA-SIN where one FA performed the German announcements. As I was sitting in an emergency exit row, I could see the FA reading the announcement from a booklet. The written announcement in the booklet must have been some phonetic transcription only, as the German was utterly incomprehensibly.

I do not expect any Asian carrier to have German announcements done “live”. Sometimes a recorded message would help, as if the announcement is incomprehensibly it doesn’t help at all.

There are special Swiss announcements? Wow! SQ must be the only airline to have this. Swiss is (though actually the same language) quite different from German, but I never had a Swiss announcement on a foreign carrier. In fact there are so many German FAs working for SWISS, that even on SWISS flights you find FAs only speaking standard German.