How far will the Airlines to reduce their costs?

Less toilets, stewardesses instead of stewards, plastic cutlery instead of steel or taxes for overweight travellers. Airlines compete imagination to lighten their planes and save money on kerosene

Who said light plane said lower jet fuel bill and limited pollution. It is these economies that are striving aircraft designers of tomorrow, which display their new technologies at the Paris Air Show. If reduce the weight of aircraft has always been the concern of manufacturers is also to meet this challenge as airlines stimulate their imagination. From the reduction in the number of toilets to the peanut less in appetizers bags.

Reduce the number of toilet or standing travel

Ryanair is the undisputed world champion of original ideas for saving kerosene. Until recently, Michael O'Leary was talking about his company by announcing a possible reduction in the number of toilets on the plane, " a move to one instead of four would win six seats”, he had advanced. Even before, the CEO of the low cost airline opened a debate on security in the air, thinking a new organization on the plane, that of standing travel. Recently, Boeing announced it was working to reduce the size of the toilet to win 14 additional seats in his 777.

Among manufacturers, the size of the seats is also being studied: Airbus, which designs seat 18-inch economy class, has just found a new parade to the interior of the aircraft to accommodate more seating without sacrificing size: enhance the cabin floor to where the cabin is the widest for the placement of longer rows (4 seats instead of 3) .

Pay according to its weight

"A kilo is a kilo is a kilo! ". Samoa Air 's slogan will be advertised to the small fleet of the Pacific airline. She is now the first in the world to openly display its policy to charge passengers according to their weight. Thus it’s necessary to pay between 0.80 and 3.40 euros per kilo. Some US companies also constrain overweight passengers to buy two seats instead of a book or business class where the seats are wider. Ryanair was also considered but had abandoned the establishment for technical reasons: the prescribed timing to collect the fee before boarding danger of losing too much time.

Recruit hostesses rather than stewards

The economic justification is not obvious, but the Indian company GoAir does not seem to be embarrassed: women are less heavy, it is more interesting to have stewardesses as stewards. According to a report in the Times of India, the company estimates that each additional kilo costs " 0.05-dollar cent per flight hour, which would save $ 500,000 a year." Men are therefore more "pollutants”.

Lighten meal trolleys

Just an olive or less three peanuts in an appetizer bag to save thousands of dollars. Three peanuts against $ 300,000 a year, that the savings made by Southwest Airlines for the past fifteen years.

How far will Airlines to cut the costs?  Tomorrow maybe we will not be able to travel with luggage..

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