Clapping on touch down

[WHL]

Just wondering? How many of you clap when the plane touches down, I can't see the reason for it myself, if you follow that logic, if God forbid it was bad landing, should we all boo?

[Jamboal]

I only applaud when the drinks trolley comes out

[Dominic]

I've always thought it was an American thing. Let's face it, some of them whoop and cheer at the opening of an envelope.

[Anarita John]

Seems to only happen in tourist season, when there are lots of holidaymakers on the flight. We just say thank you as we get off.

[WHL]

I've always thought it was an American thing. Let's face it, some of them whoop and cheer at the opening of an envelope.

You might have a point, ive always seen it in America

[bromerzz]

I recall going into Honolulu from LA in the early 80's on a Hawaiian Airlines jumbo and that was the first time I had ever heard applause and of course the garland of flowers round the neck once going down the aircraft steps. Totally cringeworthy.

[smudger]

I usually find it's on flights with a sizeable population of Cypriots. We go to the UK 3 times a year and the Christmas holiday flight, which has a good proportion of Cypriots always gives a resounding round of applause on landing. Occasionally at Easter and summer, but the Christmas break usually has a large proportion of Cypriots on the flight, and the loudest applause!

[Jim B]

When landing in Tel Aviv on an El Al flight most of the passengers stood up on landing and started dancing up and down the isle singing Hava Nagila while we were still taxiing into the airport.
Jim

[ApusApus]

When I used to fly around Europe on business with Ryanair, passenger's used to clap & cheer when the pilot played the awful fanfare music because the plane landed on time! At the time, I always considered it an ironic gesture!


Shane

[Ams]

Maltese used to clap on landing, not sure if they still do. When I fly there now it's on Emirates and there aren't that many Maltese on the plane.

I always found it a bit funny, as did my friends (though we're all Maltese ourselves) but certainly there's no harm in. If it makes the crew smile, why not? Though not sure the pilot can hear it any more, through the locked doors of the cockpit.

[galexinda]

On a USA-UK flight when this happened many years ago and asked the person next to me if this was a common event as we were about the only ones who didn't join in and was told it was an expression of thanks that they had landed safely.

[Dominic]

I flew back from Thailand to the UK once and it was total anarchy. There was a huge food fight at one point. Garuda Airlines - they were spectacularly bad. They cancelled one flight and put all the passengers on another flight, with no thought for who was sitting where. So people all over the plane were given the same seat. Plus everybody seemed to have drunk their duty free Mekon Whiskey...

I can't remember if anybody cheered when we landed.

[WHL]

Landing in Vegas on a Virgin flight, the cheering and clapping was done by a plane full of tanked up stag nighters, I think they were just happy to get there, on other flights I think it's relief they landed safely ...

[Maggie B]

I flew back from Thailand to the UK once and it was total anarchy. There was a huge food fight at one point. Garuda Airlines - they were spectacularly bad. They cancelled one flight and put all the passengers on another flight, with no thought for who was sitting where. So people all over the plane were given the same seat. Plus everybody seemed to have drunk their duty free Mekon Whiskey...

I can't remember if anybody cheered when we landed.

MB