Qantas removes bottled drinking water for business/premium economy

[Happy Trails]

Bottled water has been removed from the MEL Flounge. .


But replaced by white wine! At least for now...

Well, that's still around 85% water.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Well, that's still around 85% water.

And fruit so it's all good

 

[penegal]

Grape Juice - totally healthy

 

[Austman]

I used to take a bottle of water onto JQi flights. I guess it will be fruit juice now.

Maybe not the big alcoholic one.

 

[get me outta here]

On very short flights it is much quicker to hand out small bottles of water, and I want that to keep on. I also want small bottles of water to stay in the lounge. I refill those bottles many times on my trips. Disposable caps and glasses are a big waste.

 

[mviy]

Bottled water has been removed from the MEL Flounge. .

I was looking forward to the bottled water. I guess when I sit down to dine I'll ask for some bottled water and try to look puzzled if they say they don't have any despite them having champagne which is much more expensive.

 

[JessicaTam]

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[TheInsider]

I was looking forward to the bottled water. I guess when I sit down to dine I'll ask for some bottled water and try to look puzzled if they say they don't have any despite them having champagne which is much more expensive.

Wasn't necessarily about the cost, it was one of the 'green' initiatives to reduce a lot of needless waste.

 

[Wingin..it]

Which is why they should be looking at bottles containing less plastic.

There are options out there. I'd say the bottles served ex the USA had about half the plastic content of the bottles served ex Australia. They could be virtually crumpled like paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_plastic_water_bottle
New Aquafina Bottles Reduce Plastic Use by 50 Percent - Earth911.com
etc

This and maybe a trash compactor on board ? There often can be viable solutions to suit all parties.

 

[RooFlyer]

Wasn't necessarily about the cost, it was one of the 'green' initiatives to reduce a lot of needless waste.

I guess you are being factious? All that needless waste of water and some recyclable plastic?

 

[JessicaTam]

I guess you are being factious? All that needless waste of water and some recyclable plastic?

Whilst it may be recyclable, a lot of energy goes into making glass or plastic. Much more energy efficient just to turn on a tap.

 

[Austman]

To note: The bottled water removed from the MEL Flounge was in glass (not plastic) bottles.

Not sure if that makes a difference.

 

[JessicaTam]

To note: The bottled water removed from the MEL Flounge was in glass (not plastic) bottles.

Not sure if that makes a difference.

Thanks. Glass is better, but turning a tap still wins.

 

[TheRealTMA]

To note: The bottled water removed from the MEL Flounge was in glass (not plastic) bottles.

Not sure if that makes a difference.

That's good. So the cost of shipping European H2O to the QF lounge is even greater.

 

[Austman]

We had better hope that the "enhancement" or "green" initiative is limited to water!

There are many other fluids, where a similar "green" rational could apply.

For virtually all of them, in fact...

 

[RooFlyer]

Whilst it may be recyclable, a lot of energy goes into making glass or plastic. Much more energy efficient just to turn on a tap.

<Best John McEnroe imitation >. Shirley you can't be SERIOUS!! Tap water? All those kilometres of copper ( or old lead) or plastic piping, made from those dreadful holes in the ground / the environmentally raping oil industry! Chrome plated taps made from chrome mined in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Water from dams which have flooded pristine platypus habitat and treated with acid forming and outright toxic chlorine. :shock:

Bleah! Tap water, forsooth!

Better cool, sweet bottled water from natural springs bubbling up underneath the airport terminal, lovingly packaged in fair trade organic polyvinyl chloride, stored in a fridge using only the best and most sustainable fluorocarbons and .... Oh, never mind.

Ill stick to gin.

 

[Austman]

A problem when deciding to play the "green" card is that there might not be an end to it.

Virtually everything QF offers could be "greened" away.

It's a dangerous card to play in the service provider industry! Especially in the airline industry.

 

[Moody]

The end game is to provide adequate hydration in the most efficient manner available. Everything else is superfluous, no?

 

[Austman]

The end game is to provide adequate hydration in the most efficient manner available. Everything else is superfluous, no?

Yes.

That's precisely how service industries (a huge employer) successfully operate.

 

[RooFlyer]

A problem when deciding to play the "green" card is that there might not be an end to it.

Virtually everything QF offers could be "greened" away.

It's a dangerous card to play in the service provider industry! Especially in the airline industry.

Indeed, Qantas itself could be totally 'greened' away. Except for some behaviours of the Green movement, such as a few years ago when the Dept Climate Change flew 10 staffers QF First Class to Cancun, followed by legions slumming it in business.

Of course, they all would have used the taxpayer's funds to 'offset' their emissions (well, the aircraft's anyway), which makes it all OK. Except that we don't have enough 'offsetting' stuff in Australia to absorb all the [-]indulgences[/-] 'offsets' so we had to send the money offshore to, well, who knows where. But we all felt better and the First passengers assuaged their guilt quite satisfactorily.