During landing, are passengers allowed to keep plastic cups served to them?

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Are airlines required to provide language of destination flight attendants, and must airlines perform the safety demonstration in English and the local language?

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Are plastic cups allowed in the cabin for takeoff or landing when the airline provides the cups?

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Can a passenger sit in a flight attendant jumpseat for takeoff and landing instead of their assigned seat in the cabin?

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If a passenger brings their bag on board the plane but there isn’t enough room in an overhead bin, is there anything flight attendants should do before taking the bag from the passenger and having it put in the belly of the plane?

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Must armrests in exit seats must be fixed, or is it up to the operator to decide whether the armrests can be of the movable type?

In all my travels on airlines around the world, I’ve yet to see an exit seat with movable armrests. I’m not 100% sure if there is a regulation that requires it, however from a functional standpoint, all exit seat armrests are fixed because they contain the tray used by a passenger seated there. 

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Fasten seatbelt sign and passenger compliance

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I am on a 50 passenger seat aircraft that has two jumpseats. Only one Flight Attendant is required. If a  jumpseat rider occupies the empty jumpseat, does that constitute a fifty‐first seat, triggering the requirement to add a second Flight Attendant? 

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Most airlines have cabin lights turned off or on the lowest setting before takeoff and landing at night. Is this a regulation or a best practice? 

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