South African Airways Safety Video

[grubeci]

Its not really an afrrican airlline its really south african.

[shnoziyahu]

1.turn on the cc

2.wait until 1:11

3."placed in moscow perpetually open up and friedman reformed he likes to talk about japan"

:)

[ChileanAntics]

I saw this when I went for World Cup. The best safety video I have ever seen!

[SIAtoSingapore]

Hey, everyone. Does anybody know what type of accent the narrator is speaking with? I've listened to received pronunciation many times on BBC broadcasts and such and this just doesn't sound exactly the same... Is this a South African variation of RP, or is it a particular local accent in Britain? I'd really like to know... Thanks!

[SouthAfricanAirways1]

@SIAtoSingapore She is speaking with A SA English accent. She is South African not British, that's why you couldn't get her accent.

[SIAtoSingapore]

@SouthAfricanAirways1 My understanding is that standard South African English derives almost directly some form of British English. I've also asked this question to a British user (living near London) on Youtube, and she confirmed that the accent is a normal southern London accent.

[SouthAfricanAirways1]

@SIAtoSingapore This may be true, but she is definitely South African regardless of her accent.

[SIAtoSingapore]

@SouthAfricanAirways1 Of course.

[mc9t81]

The narrator is obviously South African and is not "British" as it does not make sence to have a different accent...its like an Australian on a Delta safety video

[rybupsp]

That little guy is hilarious!

[RaymondBarreto]

wow, this guy had a shit flight, smoking, bags fall on him..

[gatorades4gangsters]

I have seen this video soooo many times!

[22871987]

I find this neat and well presented. As a flight attendant with air Pacific Fiji I am tired of announcing the safety on board, especially when it has to be done in three or four languages depending on the rout. We do our safety demo in British English, Fijian, Fiji-Hindi, Japanese(if bounding for Japan). My Japanese is not that good so frequent flight to japan I rely on my notepad for pronounciation and the cabin crew demo. Its a tiring thing when esp no one is paying attention.

[Vikkoman]

Are there televisions in the cabin?

If so, Air Fiji needs to make a safety video, which plays once in English with Fijian and Fiji-Hindi subtitles. It may be played again if the destination country is not English-speaking.

[22871987]

@Vikkoman Oh the proposal for doing one of those safety video was turned down by our government. Air Pacific Fiji directives are somewhat different in so many ways. So, i guess we are stuck with the manual demonstration for another 5 yrs and with our new Honk Kong route, things get much worser translating demo in simplified chinese!

[Vikkoman]

IMO that is a very shortsighted decision by the government, considering how many other airlines have TV demos like these.

If there are not enough Chinese speakers to effectively serve the Chinese traffic, it will get worse.

[alilynn99]

This makes me happy every time I watch it!! It reminds me of the best 11 days of my life when I flew SAA in March 09 to go to Cape Town and Johannesburg! :)

[flyelal]

like el als

[fokker1981]

The best i've seen!!

[ghimmiwat]

i love this safety video very nice

[matceptional12]

I flew on SAA a few weeks ago and they still had this safety vid playing ^_^

[gunnersfan44]

no one knows how many times ive seen this video

[Inathi12]

SAA is world-class but it's too blooming expensive during the festive or summer seasons lol.

[iHeartzsleeping]

LOL love it.

[hlpraise]

I flew SAA between Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. I'm an American.

[nolde10]

From where did you fly? And where are you from?

[hlpraise]

Not sure, I haven't flown SAA since August 2007

[nolde10]

Do they stilll have this vid on their flights?

I havent flewn saa for 1 year!!

[SouthAfricanAirways1]

Yes they do I fly between Melbourne to Perth(with Qantas) Perth to Johannesburg(SAA)and then Johannesburg to Durban and on all the SAA flights they have these vids!

[Eric2221]

LOVE IT

[Carmarthan415]

this has got to be the cutest safety video Ive seen!! and the contents of the announcements are by far more thorough and make sense than any other airlines ive heard...

[SoccerGoalkeeper]

I LOVED IT!!!!!! FIVE STARS!!! LOL

[brian432152]

They took this off because people complained that It was Racist.

[vogel5555]

how's it racist... i think it rather well done - entertaining and thats not easily said about an airline safety video.

[Hardbass11]

haha.. SAA is best!

[RockyMHorse]

SAA is awesome! Hehe.

[schenkel123]

My best flight ever was with a SAA Airbus from London to Capetown... the "AirScape" entertainment system kicks ass, as the service does!

[fletch4president]

its like looney tunes

[surfside127]

south african is bad

[jekemu]

Ur a BITCH!

[gladnicke3]

South African Airways is the best flight company ever!

[FlySaa2]

the best airline ever!!!!!!!!

[putneyboer]

I just got this enlightened feeling that I'm flying home to SA, to nice weather...snap out of it!

[KingofDefence]

Heh, funny one, the animation is a nice touch. Better than morbid looking actors doing the demonstration...

[MrSouthAfrica2006]

hehe that a nice video

[aviationwiz]

Thank you! I've been looking for a good quality copy of the entire safety video for a while now.

[georgehorvath83]

Have you found it then? :) It's a shame it's a camcorder recornding only...

[airodyssey]

Thanks for uploading the (almost) entire video! I like its carefree style :-)

[danielwkim]

Shouldn't you be turning off all electronics including your digital camera? ;)