1. Are they just so bored with those speeches that they feel compelled to insert random words just for variety?" As a collective verbal tic of a whole industry, airline–speak goes beyond needless emphatic verb forms (e.g., "we do realize" instead of the simpler "we realize"). It extends to time–filling verbosities ("We will be starting the boarding process," instead of "We will board"), peculiarities of intonation (especially odd stresses on prepositions, as in "Welcome to the Boston area"), and the overgeneralized, all–things–to–all–people locutions such as "Welcome to the Boston area, or wherever your final destination happens to be," as if someone has just remembered all those folks looking to make the last flight to Bangor, Maine, tonight.