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..
Source:
LeFigaro.fr
