Originally Posted by
KD5MDK
They have those on 763s too. The story I heard was that since people may smoke anyway, there needs to be a safe place to extinguish the cigarettes and not start a trash fire. Or that it was part of the original design approval and it would cost too much to take it out.
You are correct. I am a flight attendant. Rather than have someone panic at being caught smoking and hurridly throw their cig into the trash and start a fire, we would prefer they butt it out in the provided receptables.