Aircraft Trivia: Making the aircraft as light as possible In-flight tableware is also ingeniously designed.

 To reduce the weight of the aircraft, the tableware used in the fuselage meal has also been made as light as possible.

With carbon dioxide emission reductions and rising fuel costs becoming global themes, the most important issue in the field of aircraft development is to make the aircraft itself lighter so that it can fly on less fuel.

Research is being conducted daily to reduce the weight of materials used for airframes.

Fuel costs can also be reduced, of course, because of the lighter aircraft.

Such weight reduction of the aircraft has started with lighter seats and cargo containers, reduced pages in the in-flight magazine, eliminated the in-flight magazine itself, and finally extended to the in-flight tableware.

Although weight reduction can be achieved by replacing ceramic dishes with plastic and other materials, the use of plastic rather than ceramic dishes for first- and business-class meals is a difficult problem because it leads to a decline in the level of service.