Originally Posted by
prestonh
these items are likely procured by the pallet. Their actual cost may be nearly as much in their processing and handling (cleaning/processing for each flight) as it would be to replace new. if it was the other way around there would be substantially more inventory control.
I think it's that the inventory control cost would be comparable to that of replacing the small amount of leakage. If the cleaning/repackaging cost as much as new, they would just throw them all away at the end and stock new every flight. But they don't, which is why the blankets get to seeming like tissue paper.