[PA] Elite members and priority queues

[Martin Pool]

On 13 June 2011 23:42, vila <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> John Barstow <jbowtie at amathaine.com> writes:
>
>    > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM, vila <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>    >>>>>>> Matthew D Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> writes:
>    >>
>    >>    > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:55:44PM +0200 I heard the voice of
>    >>    > vila, and lo! it spake thus:
>    >>    >>
>    >>    >> One more Bazaar Airlines flight on time ! [1]
>    >>
>
>    > I'm glad we're having fun - truly! - but it can get a little hard to
>    > follow the metaphor
>
> Our new In-Flight Entertainment system has still some rough edges
> (including a non-native English Pilot).
>
> We're eager to satisfy your needs so please ask any specific questions
> that could help making our announcements clearer.
>
> As far as 'One more Bazaar Airlines flight on time !' is concerned,
> actually, that wasn't a metaphor, at all. Ryan Air is a low cost
> (European) company very proud about landing on time. When a plane land,
> they play some kind of trumpet jingle (quite loudly) followed by an
> announcement saying: "One more flight landing on time" or something
> along these lines I don't remember exactly.
>
> Overall the impression is a bit silly and almost cartoon'esque.

Like John Barstow I did find some earlier PP PA mails a bit cryptic,
even though I'm both a native English speaker and following bzr pretty
closely.  I sympathize if you want to make them less stolid and
repetitive.

In fact even the acronym 'PA' may be opaque to some; I suppose you
mean public address system.  Perhaps saying '[pilot]' instead would be
better.

There was a fair amount of content in this particular one; I liked the
summary of what landed.  I think the talk about 'patch discrimination'
might be alarming and as I see it that's not what's really going on:
no patches are being discriminated against, but rather some that ought
to be helped are being inadvertently neglected.

Probably for the graphs (which are good) it's worth telling people
what conclusion they ought to draw.

I flew today (in real life) and the pilot said "I hope this works out"
to the stewardess as she closed the door(!!).

Martin