Emirates chucks magazines...to save fuel
Interesting idea, but it honestly doesn't make much sense to me.Emirates has made a decision to get rid of all paper from the seat pockets on its new Airbus A380. Why? The Economist reports that they're trying to save weight and, hence, fuel.
Don't get me wrong. I think throwing out those silly in-flight magazines is a grand idea. However, can you seriously save significant weight by removing, say, 1000 magazines? Let's say it's the same weight as one passenger (after dinner.)
Does that really make a big difference?
The Economist writes that removing 2kg of paper from each of the 500 seats shaves a tonne off the plane's flying weight. What do they mean by "2 kilos" of magazines, exactly? That's 4 pounds. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I have never been on a flight where you find 4 lbs of reading material in the seat pocket in front of you.
What does Emirates provide for the reading pleasure of their customers? Bridal magazines?
Filed under: United Arab, Airlines
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Jul 23rd 2008 @ 2:52PM
nzm said...
Emirates do have a LOT of reading material in their seat pockets - so much that we often clear out the pockets of all the reading paraphernalia to give us more space for our knees.
The Inflight magazine is about the thickness of a bridal magazine. Add the extensive almost-as-thick Duty Free Magazine and the inflight entertainment menu for the 600 channel ICE entertainment system, and there is a hefty amount of paper in that pocket.
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Jul 23rd 2008 @ 3:01PM
Nick Hawkins said...
Some airlines are tripping over dollars to save pennies.
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Jul 23rd 2008 @ 5:47PM
Tracey said...
Why don't they take all the paint off the plane....then they will save a S#&t load of money. There are over a 50 gallons of lead paint on some of the planes...why aren't they looking there???
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Jul 28th 2008 @ 1:35PM
Adam said...
Some smartass top-level manager probably read about that urban legend: how was able to save million dollars by removing an olive from their in-flight cocktails/menu etc... :-)
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