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This Week at Emirates: Whither The In-Flight Magazine?

August 8, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments

We've never been huge fans of in-flight magazines but they do tend to while away a good half an hour or so, or even more on long flights when we're fighting boredom. But flavor-of-the-month Emirates, in their eternal wisdom, has now decided to ditch its in-flight magazine completely.

Apparently this will save them one ton of weight per flight--we get it, lower fuel consumption and less emissions--so they're crowing about both cost and environment savings. Environment? This from the airline which thinks an in-flight shower is a necessity for some passengers?

Problem number two: What will passengers do instead of reading the in-flight mag? Stare at the screen in front of them even after watching all the movies? Hopefully not chat on their cell phones for an extra half hour.

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· Emirates Ditch Their In-Flight Magazine [Travel Rants]
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· Emirates and the In-Flight Shower [Jaunted]

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