Penny Wise. Delta Foolish.

All I’m gonna say is, I’m glad I’m not an airline. This, from the New York Times, is one of Delta’s plans to deal with rising costs of running an airline.

“Up in the cockpit, Delta is studying whether it is feasible to divide the heavy pilot manuals required on each flight between the captain and first officer, so pilots are not toting duplicate sets of five or six books that each weigh about a pound and a half.”

This is not to save on paper but to make the planes lighter and hence requiring less fuel to fly. Next they will be charging us for toilet paper. Or eliminating it all together.