Aeroflot has become customer-oriented?

[William Ryan]

My wife and I flew London to Vilnius on RyanAir a few weeks ago - much 
clapping on landing in Vilnius, none on the return flight to London. I 
heard it a couple of years ago on an Easyjet flight to Israel. My wife 
flies fairly often to Moscow - clapping is still common on Aeroflot, 
which is nowadays a good reliable carrier.  My daughter flew BA to China 
two years ago - the Chinese clapped. A friend from Colombia says 
clapping is common in South America. Try Googling "applauding landing" - 
lots of hits - the practice can be found, or used to be found, almost 
everywhere including the USA. I have never heard it personally in the UK 
or on transatlantic flights or flights within western Europe. Tentative 
conclusion - less to do with the airline than who is flying. Nice topic 
for contemporary folklorists.
Will Ryan


On 03/11/2013 03:33, Alexei Bogdanov wrote:
> Let's not create another myth.  I grew up in an Aeroflot family (my mom and dad worked for Aeroflot),
> flying around the Soviet Union all the time in the 70s.  There was no clapping at landing but there were
> sweets all the time.   I first experienced that weird clapping at landing when I flew from Moscow to Warsaw in 1989, and the plane was Polish.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexei Bogdanov
> University of Colorado
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> On 11/2/2013 10:01 AM, LeBlanc, Ronald wrote:
>> And I suppose we'll be told soon that the passengers no longer applaud wildly when the aircraft manages to land (not smoothly, of course, but just lands)?
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>> Ron
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> If anyone is nostalgic about the applause, just fly Al Italia, or for that matter, any flight filled with Italians...
> Jules Levin
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