At the end of the flight as we are deplaning, the pilot is usually standing right at the cockpit door, along with the co-pilot and a steward or 2, and I would have made a point to ask who chose and played those 3 songs, instead of saying thank you/good-bye like everyone does.
Would it have held up the line of people to deplane? Well maybe for a minute, but deplaning always takes so long anyway, 1 more minute to ask to try to get an answer wouldn't have been so bad.
Or I would have deplaned and instead of rushing straight to baggage claim, I would have sent my flying partner there and I would have waited for the pilot to deplane and come down the hallway, and then ask him.
I would have wanted the name of the person responsible for choosing the music, and also for deciding to play it.
On every flight I have taken, usually with Jet Blue, Allegiance Air, or Delta, there has never been any type of music being played while boarding or deplaning, they always give out headphones so that passengers can choose their own music or watch the tv (in the case of Jet Blue with tvs in every seat).

I would have wanted to know the name of person who chose the music and decided to play it so that when I wrote my letter, I could include that information along with my flight information so that AA could specifically look up that flight and speak with the persons responsible for making the last 10-15 minutes of my flight uncomfortable.

Some asked if 1 song is ok or is 3 songs too many? Is there a number of songs that would have made it ok or worse?
Personally, even 1 song of this type would have upset me and made the last 10-15 minutes of what was a pleasant flight, now turn bad.
Instead of remembering a good flight, I would have been focused on that 1 song and how it made me feel.
People like all kinds of different music, no matter what type of music the airline played, it would have upset at the very least 1-5 passengers on any given flight., so this is why, in my opinion, that airlines should choose not to play any music at all at any time during any flight.
If they refrain from playing any music, then not a single passenger would have cause to be upset.

Airlines are in the business of transporting people in basically, captivity, we are a totally captive audience, we have no choice but to listen to anything that may be played or spoken at any time during our flight, so if an airline wants to keep all of it's passengers happy and continuing to choose to fly with them on all future flights, they should choose not to possibly offend even a single passenger, and choose not play anything at all.

This is of course, just my opinion, other people are obviously entitled to theirs, but now that I know there is a possibility of American Airlines playing christian music during flights, even just the last 10-15 minutes of a flight, it has already made my decision of which airline to NOT fly with much easier.
I will not fly with American Airlines because of the possibility of christian music being played.

I really hope that whomever was responsible for the music was told that it was a bad idea and to refrain from doing it in the future, but I highly doubt the person responsible will stop.
Christians are supposed to share the word of their god with whoever they can whenever they can, they are supposed to share the message, so unless the person's job was on the line, they will probably continue to do this on more flights in the future.

If the pilot is relying on that rather than training and instrumentation then you are in trouble.

Chris

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Joanne
host of the Gospel Soundcheck blog

Regards,

~Jean Marie