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Croatia Airlines has introduced a new onboard announcement system on its Airbus A220 fleet featuring recordings in fourteen languages. The multilingual announcement package was produced by Zagreb-based Jukebox Studio and is used for passenger welcome, safety and onboard service messages. The project forms part of the carrier's ongoing A220 fleet renewal programme, which is seeing Croatia Airlines gradually transition to an all-A220 fleet.
Croatia Airlines has introduced a new onboard announcement system on its Airbus A220 fleet featuring recordings in fourteen languages. The multilingual announcement package was produced by Zagreb-based Jukebox Studio and is used for passenger welcome, safety and onboard service messages. The project forms part of the carrier's ongoing A220 fleet renewal programme, which is seeing Croatia Airlines gradually transition to an all-A220 fleet.
According to Jukebox Studio, the recordings were produced in fourteen different languages. The voices used in the recordings were provided by Croatia Airlines cabin crew members. The languages played onboard depend on the destination or the passenger structure.
For an airline that flies mostly to Western Europe, this is such a waste of money. Just do the announcements in English and Croatian and move on. I remember back in the days, Adria doing it in Slovenian, English and German. They would read it so fast and with a thick accent. On top of that the noise and the sound system on those planes were horrible, so you could barely understand anything they were saying :)
ReplyDeleteFinally they made this turning step. This will change everything. Bold move.
DeleteThese are not being read out in thick accents, these are pre-recorded.
DeleteIf the audio quality is good (and I hope it is in new A220) then it's a cute little thing. Shouldn't be expensive to rent a studio for a day and upload recordings.
Delete14 languages? Jeez, this is going to be long.
Deletethey have the announcements in 14 languages- doesnt mean they will play all- duh!
DeleteTaxi on all croatian airports, plus BIH /NMK is very very short. It is 60 % of their flights. This IS waste of money, but why not, stoka sitnog zuba is paying willingly and without a single complaint. 14.31 "this will change everything" - no this will change nothing, they will be just more pathetic with putting a lipstick on the pig. Everything will change when politics exit company, when aparatchiks are replaced with professionals, when unnecessary administrative workforce is reduced, and when they build decent network, when they stop feeding LHG for peanuts, when they grow shameful LF from 60 to 75-80 percent and when they raise even more shameful market share from 13 to 25-30 percent. Until then, I suggest you stop writing BS here and adress it to Središnjica, where it belongs
DeleteGreat news, OU is always one step ahead of the rest.
ReplyDeleteOn Air Baltic they have been doing this for years.
DeleteNot to mention LCCs
DeleteThis video is actually very cool
ReplyDeleteDo we know which 14 languages? Was it Greek and Slovenian in the video? Or some other Slavic language?
ReplyDeleteCroatian, Serbian, German, Austrian...
DeleteRussian?
ReplyDeleteIt is Macedonian.
DeleteAnother deal between party apparatchiks that will be paid for by Croatian taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy for my taxes to be invested into OU! As a Croat I'm proud of my National Airline. The money we get back from tourism taxes is much more then what we pay in.
DeleteNothing to be proud about. Its rubbish
Delete17.31
DeleteYou do not have anything to do on an aviation portal/blog. Aviation wise, Croatia Airlines as it is, is utter shame. Tourist tax is 1 euro per day. Average tourist stay is 7 days. They transport 2 mil passengers, about half are tourists, which mean tourist tax from the tourists they bring is 7 mil euro per year. In the first 3 months they had 29 mil losses. Until the end of the year it will be 70 mil. So, tourists they bring cover for 10 percent of their losses. You and me paying 90 percent. Are you still proud? And I guess the answer is yes because there is no help with brainwashed people
Selo gori a baba se češlja
ReplyDeleteHardcore hahah
DeleteA futile effort, nobody listens to those announcements anyway.
ReplyDeleteAirlines have been doing this for years
ReplyDeleteAt least it's not Brussels Airlines... even if the livery is basically the same. BRU–TXL (way back when) was mostly announcements since everything had to be done in English, French, Dutch and German. The door was opened before the announcements could finish upon landing!
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