{"id":15104,"date":"2017-03-01T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15104"},"modified":"2017-03-01T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:00:13","slug":"creative-ways-airlines-have-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/creative-ways-airlines-have-cut-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Ways Airlines Have Cut Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/030117_1157_CreativeWay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the airline industry every penny counts. The Economist wrote about some of the weirder cost-cutting strategies that companies have employed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One Indian carrier only hires female flight attendants because they&#8217;re typically up to 15kg lighter than men, and this saves on fuel costs.<\/li>\n<li>Others are going as far as to strip out expensive safety equipment necessary for water landings. They just make sure the plane never flies over water.<\/li>\n<li>American Airlines famously found that removing the single olive from in-flight salads saved the company $40,000 a year. It turned out the vendor was paid based on the number of ingredients in the salad.<\/li>\n<li>Southwest has taken its logo off garbage bags to save $300,000 annually on printing costs.<\/li>\n<li>Even the carpeting on planes has been thinned to reduce weight.<\/li>\n<li>If the runway is long enough, pilots are encouraged to let the plane come to a natural stop rather than burn fuel on reverse thrusters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other cost saving methods that airlines have utilized on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2015\/12\/economist-explains-12\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the airline industry every penny counts. The Economist wrote about some of the weirder cost-cutting strategies that companies have employed: One Indian carrier only hires female flight attendants because they&#8217;re typically up to 15kg lighter than men, and this saves on fuel costs. Others are going as far as to strip out expensive safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/030117_1157_CreativeWay1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15107,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15104\/revisions\/15107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}