[cortney]

telling passengers that they were not in danger would cause chaos with some thinking the airline is lying to them. our pilots usually tell us (after the rough air) that we hit turbulence and were going to keep the seatbelt sign on for a bit longer etc..I have been up in the flight deck and pilots are extremly busy and by the sounds of your flgiht there really wasn't time to explain. quite often though pilots know ahead of time when there is going to rough weather. our pilot had us sit down because of turbulence coming up, we ended up going around it, but im glad he was looking out for us.