"Robin Mayes" wrote in message
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Surprised this already hasn't come up.

The end of last week, we were all told that we had to precede P.A.
messages
with "Good (morning / afternoon / evening) ladies and gentlemen". By
Monday
it was reduced to "Ladies and gentlemen".

How do you feel about this? Do you think it's a tad Americanised?

Do you consider yourself customers or passengers?

Not only would I like to know, but I'm sure
would too!



I would say that using somethig like "Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening" or
somesuch is a useful way of attracting people's attention so that by the
time you get to deliver the message proper they might be listening to what
your saying.

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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I would say that using somethig like "Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening" or
somesuch is a useful way of attracting people's attention so that by the
time you get to deliver the message proper they might be listening to what
your saying.

That's what the bing-bong' was designed to do (amongst other things).

"Robin Mayes" wrote the following in:



"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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I would say that using somethig like "Good
Morning/Afternoon/Evening" or somesuch is a useful way of
attracting people's attention so that by the time you get to
deliver the message proper they might be listening to what your
saying.

That's what the bing-bong' was designed to do (amongst other
things).

And if something has to be said, I'd prefer "Attention please" to "Good
morning".

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