Airlines reduce spoon size to save fuel

[Slats7]

Airlines reduce spoon size to save fuel | The Daily Telegraph

AIRLINES, desperate to cut costs, have gone to the extraordinary lengths of reducing the size of spoons and jettisoning in-flight magazines to make planes lighter to save fuel.

Do whatever you can to save costs!

 

[oz_mark]

I guess having plastic cutlery helps too!

 

[Skyring]

I'm wondering about jettisoning inflight magazines. Wouldn't it make more sense to just leave them on the ground?

 

[oz_mark]

Removing in flight magazines was something Emirates has done before (http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/community/travel-news/ek-scraps-inflight-magazine-14309.html).

I would have thought that the advertising revenue from magazines covered the cost of these things.

 

[Svenc]

I was on EK413 AKL-SYD on A380 First Class and we got plastic knife and metal fork. Like a fork can't be as much of a threat as a blunt dinner knife !!
Really, if they want to save weight, just begin by being a little stricter on the carry-on component. I always abilde by their rules and get annoyed when I see what others a) Bring onboard as carry on, and B) are allowed to do so !!

 

[v8Statesman]

I was on EK413 AKL-SYD on A380 First Class and we got plastic knife and metal fork. Like a fork can't be as much of a threat as a blunt dinner knife !!

I think you will find the plastic knife is an Australian regulation.

 

[Natt]

Airlines reduce spoon size to save fuel | The Daily Telegraph



Do whatever you can to save costs!

What they need is a spork!!

I have a spork variant - thats a spoon on one end, a fork on the other, and the fork is lightly serrated on one side to serve as a knife

OK its a bit fiddly but it is small

I have seen versions that are a spoon with little teeth at the bottom to serve as a fork

 

[Skyring]

Just waiting for QF009 to chip in that cutlery is irrelevant - he drinks his dinner!

 

[NM]

I was on EK413 AKL-SYD on A380 First Class and we got plastic knife and metal fork. Like a fork can't be as much of a threat as a blunt dinner knife !!
Really, if they want to save weight, just begin by being a little stricter on the carry-on component. I always abilde by their rules and get annoyed when I see what others a) Bring onboard as carry on, and B) are allowed to do so !!

I think you will find the plastic knife is an Australian regulation.

Indeed ALL flight to/from and within Australia MUST use non-metal knives onboard. As far as I know, Australia is the only country still to ban metal knives on aircraft.

 

[JohnK]

Personally I think the airlines carry way too much cutlery.

I just love it when I see people in WHY using knives and forks to eat their tiny meal. I actually provided free education to the person sitting next to me on the BNE-SYD flight on Friday night. I usually take the meal from the tray and hold it close to me so I don't need to lean forward and use the fork to eat the meal. And the person next to me noticed what I was doing and finished his meal the same way as me.

I hardly ever need to use a knife, and I can't think of anything any airline serves in WHY that requires the use of a knife, and use my fingers where possible. The only cutlery that is a necessity is a fork and possibly stirrer for coffee/tea.

• Bread roll? Use a fork to apply the margarine if you really need it and use your fingers to open up the bread roll
• Salad? Use a fork
• Meal? Use a fork as most of the meals are pieces of meat rather than a steak and even with a small steak it can be easily cut with a fork
• Desert? Most deserts are solid unless they have some type of ice cream. So serve solid deserts and you can use a fork.

Great suggestion for the airlines to save money....

 

[Nicholas Bignell]

I think you will find the plastic knife is an Australian regulation.

Totally lacking in sense, in my view. I travelled from Abu Dhabi to Munich and we actually had metal knives, but the Australian authorities have decided that all knives, no matter how blunt they may be, are a threat.

 

[pblackm]

Totally lacking in sense, in my view. I travelled from Abu Dhabi to Munich and we actually had metal knives, but the Australian authorities have decided that all knives, no matter how blunt they may be, are a threat.

Yes, there was the story about Amanda Vanstone pointing out to John Howard at a dinner how stupid the regulation is. She told him that she could just as easily kill him with the fork that she was holding. He was shocked (not sure whether it was about the concept, or that Amanda might do it).

I carry a slim metal pencil. It has the advantage of never leaking ink in a pressurised cabin. The pencil could be used as a lethal weapon with little or no specialist training.

 

[Nicholas Bignell]

Come to think of it, my hands could be lethal weapons if I decided to strangle someone. Maybe all passengers should have their hands tied behind their backs and be spoon-fed by the flight attendants

 

[v8Statesman]

be spoon-fed by the flight attendants

As long as she is a AIR NZ attendant wearing only body paint

 

[simongr]

I carry a slim metal pencil. It has the advantage of never leaking ink in a pressurised cabin. The pencil could be used as a lethal weapon with little or no specialist training.

The issue is not the personal physical threat but the ability to cut through communications cables - such as the phone line between the cabin and the coughpit.

This does not make the regulation any less ridiculous just clarifying the risk.

 

[drron]

Well a report on ABC radio this afternoon from Japan where ANA is asking all pax to use the toilet before boarding to reduce take off weght.
So next it will be through security and then run the gauntlet of port a loos before you board :shock:

 

[Archphoto]

The issue is not the personal physical threat but the ability to cut through communications cables - such as the phone line between the cabin and the coughpit.

This does not make the regulation any less ridiculous just clarifying the risk.

Couldn't a determined somebody just rip the phone from the socket??
Plus those metal knives couldn't cut butter let alone a phone cable these days.

I always have a laugh when I eat in the First lounge in SYD - so elegant, until you reach for your plastic knife to eat your breakfast......

Oh well, one day we'll eventually return to civilisation on board.......and in the Club.

 

[simongr]

This does not make the regulation any less ridiculous just clarifying the risk.

Couldn't a determined somebody just rip the phone from the socket??
Plus those metal knives couldn't cut butter let alone a phone cable these days.

I refer you to my initial comment

I have worked out a way I think to get a metal knife on board flying JFK-LAX-SYD. Take an AA flight ex-JFK and they have metal flatware in the F lounge. Connect at T4 LAX to a QF flight and you wont need to go through security again a voila - knives on board!

 

[ejb]

I refer you to my initial comment

I have worked out a way I think to get a metal knife on board flying JFK-LAX-SYD. Take an AA flight ex-JFK and they have metal flatware in the F lounge. Connect at T4 LAX to a QF flight and you wont need to go through security again a voila - knives on board!

simongr.........just tagged as potential threat for planning to use a metal knife on QF.

However I do think a fork is as dangerous to a fellow pax as a knife but if they are trying to eliminate the threat of cutting wires thay have done a great job because QF knives are blunt.

ejb

 

[pblackm]

The issue is not the personal physical threat but the ability to cut through communications cables - such as the phone line between the cabin and the coughpit.

This does not make the regulation any less ridiculous just clarifying the risk.

Thanks simongr, I understand now. Short of pulling covers off in the cabin and toilets, I wonder what cables passengers could readily access?