Spoons ditched to shave costs | The Sun — When accountants start running things, then this is the result. Prediction: it gets worse.
COST-CUTTING airlines are making spoons smaller and dropping in-flight mags to make planes lighter and save fuel. The International Air Transport Association has revealed Northwest Airlines has taken spoons from its cutlery pack if the in-flight meal doesn’t need one.
And another carrier, JAL of Japan, took everything it loaded from a 747 and put it on the floor of a school gym to see what it really needed. It shaved a fraction of a centimetre off all its cutlery to cut weight.
The body’s director of the environment Paul Steele said: “When you are talking about a jumbo jet with 400 people on board, being served two to three meals, this can save a few kilos.
A foretaste of Obama care
Passengers will be required to empty their bladders before boarding the plane.
How about smaller flight crews, I mean like midgets. Or, save a few kilos with lighter crew uniforms:
Would gladly help with savings by eating with a spork IF the flight crews did their part (above pic)!
How about having the crew go naked? That would have several kilos.
#3, Cow-Patty,
Typical wing nut reaction.
This would end up costing several times as much as any fuel saved. All it would take is that one drunken Republican to slip his hand up some attendant’s skirt for the sexual harassment suits to fly.
As with most right wing nut ideas, cost savings almost always end up costing several fold more than could ever be saved.
# 2 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, on June 10th, 2009 at 6:20 am
“Passengers will be required to empty their bladders before boarding the plane.”
That is probably a good idea anyway. Because only terrorist try to use the bathroom on a plane while the fasten seat belt lights are on: gadling.com/2009/04/08/flight-attendant-blocks-man-from-using-bathroom-has-him-arrest/
oops last link was http://gadling.com/2009/04/08/flight-attendant-blocks-man-from-using-bathroom-has-him-arrest/
How about requiring that everyone vomit before entering the plane?
How about free liposuction for fat passengers en route?
How about free aluminum or titanium luggage for passengers?
How about filling the cargo hold with helium balloons?
How about leaving out those in flight magazines?
How about a nudist airline with free clothing given out at the destination?
#9 Joe: Dang it, I was gonna suggest fly naked, and you beat me to the punch!
#7&8 Benjamin, maybe flight attendants should have tasers (lightweight, of course) to help them defend business class restrooms from being used by lowlife coach passengers
Under global warming regulations, many of these flights would disappear.
…then they realized that by simply dumping human waste and flush water at altitude, they could have thousands of kilos per flight and do their part to assist the crops at ground level.
I always finish drinking my $4.50 coffee before getting on the plane so I don’t have to carry that weight onto the plane.
Just doing my part.
They just need to charge passengers by the pound. Seriously. You and all your luggage get on a scale at check in.
Yeah. Like shipping anything else. We all pay by the pound shipping ammunition and such things, why not passengers????
Well when the 787 finally starts rolling off the assembly line later this year, this will all probably be a moot point as airlines transition over to the 787.
wait till they start charging air fare by the flesh pound
Airlines should base prices on total weight.
(Your fatass + your crap you just have to bring) = $$
#6
Of course it would Republicans.
…cause the few Democrats who aren’t on a government payroll and can afford to fly wouldn’t touch a woman….it’s not their ‘style’.