Many will already be familiar with the story of 1987 of how American Airlines saved $ 40 billion to remove an olive from each Salad served in first class menu. The following news is not so surprising but reflects the same spirit: how "think different" allows, among other things, address it to the recession and the unstable economic climate. This week, the same air carrier has started a pilot program for the Apple iPad in flight.
American Airlines, the airline based in United States, has announced that this week would begin with a pilot for the iPad. As we have seen on other occasions, the company replaced its tables and charts on paper by the multi-touch Tablet from Apple. As reported, this strategy would save you the company up 1.2 million dollars per year in fuel costs. Yes, they read well.
I imagine that some of you are wondering what they have to see the graphics on paper with the spending of gasoline from a plane. According to MarketWatch, publication of The Wall Street Journal dedicated to business news network, the sacks containing these documents of route weigh, in the best cases, around 35 pounds (16 kg). Make a digital one switch or two iPads per flight would dramatically reduce the weight and would enable significant fuel savings.
The initiative has already been approved by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), from this moment both private and commercial flights are authorized to implement the Apple tablets in his travels. In the case of American Airlines, this week will begin to do tests with two of their outbound flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo and Shanghai.
It should be noted that American Airlines is not the first to resort to this strategy. Last may, Alaska Air announced cordite that would begin to do testing during their flights using iPads, and remember that weeks ago here in AppleWeblog, they had on the decision of the body of Marines of the United States do the same.
In addition to being an ideal device for leisure and the entertenimiento, the Cupertino iPad has become a powerful tool for work and productivity. Also, as if all this was shortly after, the high capacity of adaptamiento of Apple devices allowed be used in more complex and specialized tasks such as aerial journeys, surgeries of knees, and space travel. Who would have said so? The lives of around 200 people--literally--in the hands of a pilot and his oversized iPhone.
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