Comment on Why do we put up with this crap?

• morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not on longer flights. It doesn’t benefit airlines much to make smaller tray tables

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Save on weight means save on gas. Multiply that by thousands of flights and it adds up. United printed their in flight magazines on lighter paper and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, just by using thinner paper.

    kiwi.com/…/united-prints-lighter-magazine-saves-1…

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    • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good example, aviation is probably the most penny-fucking business in the planet, it’s a life and death fight between the companies, trying to keep costs low.

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      United makes 50B in revenue a year. I’m guessing that stunt gave them more value in marketing than actual savings.

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You clearly do not understand basic math nor how rampant greed in capitalism works. Sad.

        If it saves them money, they WILL do it.

        Or do you think Scrooge types aren’t literally known for penny-pinching when they’re already rich and wouldn’t even notice the pennies going missing?

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a good pr thing, but they probably saved more money by using lower quality paper than the saved fuel.

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suppose I don’t take many long flights and I don’t recall how much space I had on the last long flight I had.

    Typically on my domestic flights I have a tray table that won’t fit my switch if I want to stand it up.

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