Ameircan Airlines "Copperizes" Planes...

[LeftHander]

Executives looking for quick easy cash have grounded 900 planes and began stripping copper wire from them. "With copper at a all time high we're sitting on some easy cash. It seems counter productive but it sure beats hauling around potential terrorists, but we've run the numbers and it looks good." Stated American Airlines operations chief Morton Bellows.

THIS IS SATIRE

[Ilsa]

1. LOL The Onion? nt

[thereismore]

2. If it improved their bottom line you bet they'd do anything. nt

[BlueCollar]

3. Who do you work for?

[LeftHander]

4. I wish I worked for the onion...

That would be fun....lol

[BlueCollar]

5. You didn't answer the question.

[LeftHander]

9. Not a airline....and I take the fifth on that.

[Tesha]

6. My sarcasm detector just went "boink".

I assume this post is parody, but the airlines really *ARE*
trying to lighten planes by any reasonable means and yes,
that includes stripping out from each plane as many miles
of heavy copper wire as they can. When you think of how
modern multiplexed control systems can do some very fancy
stuff over a (say) single twisted pair of wires, you can
realize some *BIG* savings by ripping out a heavy bundle
of many wires and replacing them with just a few wires
carrying high-tech signals (such as Ethernet or LonBus).

The in-seat audio, video, and other passenger controls is
an obvious area to do this.

Tesha

[BlueCollar]

7. Agreed

and the airlines are currently evaluating and the FAA are still assessing these improvements in weight ...

[LeftHander]

8. LOL! It was a joke...but I guess it might be true!!!

LOL LOL LOL....

[jmowreader]

10. Aren't they running fiber instead of copper?

[Tesha]

11. Wherever possible, yes. More bandwidth, lighter weight, no "short-circuit" fire risk. (NT)