Clapping on a plane once it lands

Minstrel27 · 02-08-2011 11:18AM

Only on Ryanair have I seen this phenomenon. Plebs the lot of them.

Latchy · 02-08-2011 11:22AM

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Get the Madrid - Dublin Ryanair flight a fair bit and the Spanish clap everytime. They just like making a lot of noise at every opportunity and love the sound of themselves making that noise...I

If ever a race of people had a love affair with themselfs it's the noisy Spanish but their women are hot so we'll make allowances for it .

syklops · 02-08-2011 11:23AM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Only on Ryanair have I seen this phenomenon. Plebs the lot of them.

Surely if everyone on the plane was a pleb, then you are calling yourself a pleb since you were on the plane too?

AnonoBoy · 02-08-2011 11:25AM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Only on Ryanair have I seen this phenomenon. Plebs the lot of them.

I've been on planes all over the world where morons did this.

Does anyone remember the Ryanair 'song' that they used to play? It was a few years back and was f*cking atrocious. It had lyrics and everything.

connundrum · 02-08-2011 11:26AM

I clap at the end of a taxi journey.

Far more dangerous tbh (statistically and emotionally).

Condatis · 02-08-2011 11:28AM

I first experienced such applause the first time that I flew into Egypt. There were a lot of Muslim pilgrims on the plane and they started clapping when we landed – to the surprise of the group in the junket that I was on.

So far as I could tell it was mostly the Muslims who clapped. On internal flights afterwards, which for the most part carried locals, there was applause on every landing.

When we flew into Luxor our escort was waiting on the apron and they also were applauding.

naoise80 · 02-08-2011 11:31AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I've been on planes all over the world where morons did this.

Does anyone remember the Ryanair 'song' that they used to play? It was a few years back and was f*cking atrocious. It had lyrics and everything.

A song with lyrics- What'll they think of next?

CrazyRabbit · 02-08-2011 11:32AM

Why stop at airplane journeys? I always give my taxi drivers a clap when they reach the correct destination, especially if they didn't use GPS.

For bus drivers, I reach my hand in through that little window to shake their hands just before I get off, but they usually just look like a deer in headlights and freeze.

It's a lot of fun on trains. I always go to the front carriage, and as the train pulls in to the stop, I bang on the door to the drivers cabin and shout "Hey you!", followed a few moments later by "Well done".

AnonoBoy · 02-08-2011 11:33AM

naoise80 wrote: »

A song with lyrics- What'll they think of next?

Touché!

I was trying to differentiate it from the jingle that they play.

Dravokivich · 02-08-2011 11:38AM

naoise80 wrote: »

A song with lyrics- What'll they think of next?

Charging you for humming the harmony.

Minstrel27 · 02-08-2011 11:39AM

syklops wrote: »

Surely if everyone on the plane was a pleb, then you are calling yourself a pleb since you were on the plane too?

It is quite obvious that them = the people doing the clapping.

Lord TSC · 02-08-2011 11:40AM

RE: The cinema clapping; it strikes me Americans are really in to letting their emotions be known during films. I went to see the last Batman film in America and they were cheering and booing for half the movie :S

I once saw a bus driver get a round of applause in America as well when he picked us up from the hotels and brought us to the airport. Was weird :P

Toots · 02-08-2011 11:40AM

I've clapped on planes a few times where they've made a nice smooth landing in horrible weather, flying back from Hong Kong a few years ago the weather was atrocious and the plane was bouncing all over the place when we were descending but the landing was perfect, light as a feather onto the tarmac.

Can't understand why people clap on a Ryanair flight, maybe it's a sense of relief knowing they'll be able to get off the plane soon?

Motley Crue · 02-08-2011 11:41AM

I've been in the States to watch films and, at random times, I've seen films get standing ovations from members of the audience - not a film festival, nobody from the production present...maybe they wanted to give that nice man with the camera at the back a chance to turn off the light

sensibleken · 02-08-2011 11:43AM

I actually think you are legally obliged to stab people who clap when a plane lands in the face.

the same goes for people who clap when a film ends

Blazer · 02-08-2011 11:45AM

Was at Harry Potter last night and some ghey attempted to clap at the end...what a tool!!!
Clapping on planes..ur a tool!! unless both wings have fallen off and the pilot still manages to land...then he deserves a clap...otherwise it's the autopilot you should be clapping.

Mongarra · 02-08-2011 11:55AM

Maybe it's a USA thing that others are copying now, like many USA habits. The first time I heard it was on a New York to Shannon flight and the Americans clapped. It may have been an emotional thing for some of them arriving safely on "the old sod".

I was on a Dublin - Charleroi Ryanair recently and there was no clapping but despite the late arrival the trumpet salute sounded.

Sky King · 02-08-2011 11:58AM

As a pilot, clapping on planes is for nobs. The pilot is SUPPOSED to be able to land it, you nobs! Why are you acting surprised and excited when (s)he does this successfully?

Luckily I only ever got the clap on a plane once and it was from an air hostess.

xzanti · 02-08-2011 12:01PM

Yeah I hate this, cringeworthy stuff.. I notice it usually happens on outgoing package holiday flights a lot.. not so much when we land back in Dublin though..

nachoman · 02-08-2011 12:04PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I've been to the cinema where people clapped at the end.

It was a normal screening, not a film festival, nobody involved in the production was present.

Whist with your clapping would ya!

Shudder *cringe* shudder.

babsybaby01 · 02-08-2011 12:05PM

Maybe more people have a fear of flying and never say anything and this is their way of letting out a sigh of relief...Flying docent bother me but I flew from bangkok to Phuket a couple of years ago and im sure biggles was flying the plane....Never mind the clapping I nearly backflipped up and down the aisle with relief(after I changed my jocks that is):p

Standard Toaster · 02-08-2011 12:09PM

Is it just an Irish thing?
I have never seen this on any other airline bar Airlingus and Ryanair

hardCopy · 02-08-2011 12:10PM

I hate when people do this.

I've only clapped once since I was a child and that was well deserved, the guy managed to get us down in one piece in horrific cross winds.

Plazaman · 02-08-2011 12:13PM

I clapped on a plane a couple of times. One was a American Airlines flight where the pilot decided to bounce the plane a couple of times when landing. The air hostess came on as we were taxiing in and said "Welcome to Dulles where we'd like to thank Captain Kangaroo for getting us here on time..." Well worth a clap or two.

The other time was another American flight and the air hostess started singing a song after landing (It was into Nashville so maybe it's the norm). She was stunning looking with a fair size set of funbags so again worth a clap.

Burky126 · 02-08-2011 12:22PM

If your with a group and it phisses you off,follow the clappers down to baggage claim and get your mates to clap whenever someone gets their suitcase back.Maybe they'll finally get the point.

jc002 · 02-08-2011 12:24PM

Sykk wrote: »

Recently had a swineair flight that landed at a such a steep angle that I almost got whiplash.. When the plane slowed down on it's taxi to the dock everybody started clapping

Shout that there's a bomb on board. Should get them even more excited.

Eve_Dublin · 02-08-2011 12:25PM

Latchy wrote: »

If ever a race of people had a love affair with themselfs it's the noisy Spanish but their women are hot so we'll make allowances for it .

The rugged men are probably the only reason why I'm still here at this stage. They drive me potty. Lucky for me I found one who likes 2 way conversations.

syklops · 02-08-2011 12:28PM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Is it just an Irish thing?
I have never seen this on any other airline bar Airlingus and Ryanair

No, Ive seen it on Delta, Austrian Airlines, Jet Blue, BA, TAP, and others and I dont think there were large swathes of Irish people aboard.

mandrake04 · 02-08-2011 12:33PM

leeroybrown wrote: »

At least they waited until the plane was stopped at the stand. I've seen it once but it happened directly after the plane had touched down despite most fatal plane accidents happening between that point and the end of the runway.

Funny you should say that.... Just happened Saturday past

Flight 523 from New York had just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country of Guyana when something suddenly went wrong.
The Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence and broke in half just short of a deep ravine. Yet all 163 people on board survived.
Officials were starting to probe the cause of Saturday's crash even as they marvelled at the lack of fatalities.
"We must be the luckiest country and luckiest set of people in the world to escape so lightly," said Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy, who said more than 30 people were taken to hospital. Only three had to be admitted - for a broken leg, bumps, cuts and bruises.
The Caribbean Airlines plane had left John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday evening and made a stop in Trinidad before landing in Guyana. The airline said it was carrying 157 passengers and six crew members.
Geeta Ramsingh, 41, of Philadelphia, recalled how applause at the arrival quickly "turned to screams".

"The plane sped up as if attempting to take off again. It is then that I smelled gas in the cabin and people started to shout and holler," she said.
When the plane crumpled to a stop, Ramsingh said she hopped onto the wing and then onto the dirt road outside the runway fence.
The plane came to rest off the end of the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport, which sits on a ridge in a forested region just south of the oceanfront capital of Georgetown.

The plane stopped a little short of a 60-metre ravine that could have resulted in dozens of fatalities, said President Bharrat Jagdeo.
"We are very, very grateful that more people were not injured," said Jagdeo, who came to the crash site before dawn.

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/plane-splits-in-two-after-landing-20110801-1i6td.html?from=smh_sb

mackg · 02-08-2011 12:35PM

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

RE: The cinema clapping; it strikes me Americans are really in to letting their emotions be known during films. I went to see the last Batman film in America and they were cheering and booing for half the movie :S

I once saw a bus driver get a round of applause in America as well when he picked us up from the hotels and brought us to the airport. Was weird :P

At the end of Inception everyone

started jeering and roaring fu*k off when it cut out before you got to see if the coin dropped.

Clapping on a plane once it lands

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