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Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:46
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Paperless plane in sight
Dubai, July 22, 2008 (WAM) - After paperless offices and paperless tickets, welcome to the first paperless plane.
Emirates airline has come up with a super cost-cutting idea on its superjumbo, the A380, by replacing paper with digital content according to a report in 'Khaleej Times.'"Emirates is constantly investigating innovative ways to reduce the weight of its aircraft, which in turn reduces the amount of fuel required for each flight.
One idea being looked at is to replace the in-flight printed material with on-screen content which can be shown through Emirates' award-winning in-flight entertainment system," an Emirates spokesperson told Khaleej Times.
Emirates will receive the first of its 58 A380 aircraft on order fromAirbus' Hamburg facility on July 28. The interiors and onboard product, which have been kept under wraps, will be revealed for the first time during the delivery ceremony in Hamburg.
The 58 superjumbos on Emirates' order book are worth US$18.8 billion at current list prices. The Dubai-based airline will introduce the first commercial service of the new, double-decker A380 with an inaugural non-stop 14-hour flight from Dubai to New York's JFK Airport on August 1.
The superjumbo will not have seat-pocket paper. It's goodbye to those heavy in-flight magazines, entertainment guides and other catalogues normally found in the seat pockets of other aircraft.
While rising fuel costs have seen other world airlines battling to reduce weight by cramping seat space at exits, reducing the amount of passenger baggage and some are even doing away with heavy cutlery, Emirates has worked out the weight of paper and done away with it on its A380s. Going paperless will likely see a reduction in aircraft weight by almost a tonne.
"This idea demonstrates another of Emirates' environmental policies of not only saving fuel and making their aircraft more efficient and therefore more environment friendly, but it will also drastically cut down on the amount of paper that the airline needs each year," the Emirates spokesperson said.
So what do you do when you want to read? Hit the touch screen on your seat.
All printed matter has been replaced by digital content. According to the Sunday Times, London, Emirates has started a project with Airbus to 'reduce the weight of the aircraft by five tonnes by 2012.'
Emirates airline has come up with a super cost-cutting idea on its superjumbo, the A380, by replacing paper with digital content according to a report in 'Khaleej Times.'"Emirates is constantly investigating innovative ways to reduce the weight of its aircraft, which in turn reduces the amount of fuel required for each flight.
One idea being looked at is to replace the in-flight printed material with on-screen content which can be shown through Emirates' award-winning in-flight entertainment system," an Emirates spokesperson told Khaleej Times.
Emirates will receive the first of its 58 A380 aircraft on order fromAirbus' Hamburg facility on July 28. The interiors and onboard product, which have been kept under wraps, will be revealed for the first time during the delivery ceremony in Hamburg.
The 58 superjumbos on Emirates' order book are worth US$18.8 billion at current list prices. The Dubai-based airline will introduce the first commercial service of the new, double-decker A380 with an inaugural non-stop 14-hour flight from Dubai to New York's JFK Airport on August 1.
The superjumbo will not have seat-pocket paper. It's goodbye to those heavy in-flight magazines, entertainment guides and other catalogues normally found in the seat pockets of other aircraft.
While rising fuel costs have seen other world airlines battling to reduce weight by cramping seat space at exits, reducing the amount of passenger baggage and some are even doing away with heavy cutlery, Emirates has worked out the weight of paper and done away with it on its A380s. Going paperless will likely see a reduction in aircraft weight by almost a tonne.
"This idea demonstrates another of Emirates' environmental policies of not only saving fuel and making their aircraft more efficient and therefore more environment friendly, but it will also drastically cut down on the amount of paper that the airline needs each year," the Emirates spokesperson said.
So what do you do when you want to read? Hit the touch screen on your seat.
All printed matter has been replaced by digital content. According to the Sunday Times, London, Emirates has started a project with Airbus to 'reduce the weight of the aircraft by five tonnes by 2012.'
