(Cathay Lab sustainable travel - bring your own cutlery on Business Class)
Apr 18, 2024, 8:08 am
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(Cathay Lab sustainable travel) Bring your own cutlery in Business Class
What are they smoking…
Last edited by percysmith; Apr 18, 2024 at 8:38 am
Apr 18, 2024, 8:41 am
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I would happily do #1 (I've always been doing that in fact) but I can't understand what's your problem with #3? You are not willing to hand over a bottle to the crew even if they come to your seat to collect it? I think you rejecting #3 is equally astonishing as what they proposed in #2...
Apr 18, 2024, 8:57 am
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everything other than 2 seems appropriate for me, since most of us pick up a bottle of evian or something at the airport anyways (pre-Long haul flights). I'll happily refill that rather than get another bottle.
Apr 18, 2024, 9:03 am
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I would happily do #1 (I've always been doing that in fact) but I can't understand what's your problem with #3? You are not willing to hand over a bottle to the crew even if they come to your seat to collect it? I think you rejecting #3 is equally astonishing as what they proposed in #2...
(3) Are you suggesting crew have to do sorting in-flight? General rubbish, then bottles? Is CX going to put on more staff to make that happen?
(1) - in the galley (what if you exit door 1 left?)? On the airbridge (outport gate operator: sorry, you can't get off because the recycle bin-equipped airbridge is currently in use)?
If you mean take it home/hotel I agree that would be practical but that is not what the Cathay Lab people wrote - doesn't look like the writer of survey travels much on commercial planes.
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Apr 18, 2024, 9:57 am
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I'm fine with 3 and 4 but 2, bringing my own cutlery, makes no sense to me at all. How am I to pack up used cutlery to take away? And how many sets do I need to bring to have cutlery at the different times food is available on the flight? This makes me cringe.
Apr 18, 2024, 10:29 am
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I have nothing against 3 - tbh it doesnt take much to dispose plastic bottles in bag A and anything else in bag B but option 2 is ridiculous. They can offer reusable cutlery anyway.
sa to refilling or not, wouldnt that normalise refilling bottles with wines?
sa to refilling or not, wouldnt that normalise refilling bottles with wines?
Apr 18, 2024, 4:28 pm
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How would you even get past security? People who don't know the rules would end up having a stash of "non compliant" cutlery confiscated.
Also aren't non-disposable (metal and wood) cutlery already provided in business class - this comes across to me as a solution seeking a problem.
#3 is fine. But don't we normally leave empty plastic bottles at our seats anyway, so shouldn't the cleaners just be asked to separate the recyclables versus trash?
Also aren't non-disposable (metal and wood) cutlery already provided in business class - this comes across to me as a solution seeking a problem.
#3 is fine. But don't we normally leave empty plastic bottles at our seats anyway, so shouldn't the cleaners just be asked to separate the recyclables versus trash?
Apr 18, 2024, 6:31 pm
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There were also other suggestions such as making Discovery digital and only providing amenity kits on demand which may have sustainability merit but also simultaneously cutbacks (amenity kit existing practice: if the kits are left behind and the plastic tie has not been opened, don't the kits get given to the next passenger anyway?)
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Apr 19, 2024, 12:09 am
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Moof I got reposted https://www.facebook.com/groups/hkad...ibextid=W9rl1R
Apr 19, 2024, 12:17 am
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I got asked the same set of questions but for first class.
I wrote in comments "What kind of things are you smoking? Or do you think we can bring anything remotely look like a knife into security area?"
I wrote in comments "What kind of things are you smoking? Or do you think we can bring anything remotely look like a knife into security area?"
Apr 19, 2024, 12:21 am
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