Originally Posted by
UALOneKPlus
Hard disagree. The size of the cups are laughable, one gulp and it's empty. They should make it at least coffee cup size. Otherwise it creates mounds of extra waste with how tiny it is and they have to serve more cups.
Okay I'll go with it.
Assume each 12oz can of soda costs Southwest 50cents. 0.041667 per ounce.
Cup size gets made 1oz smaller.
Assume Southwest flies 4,000 flights per day.
Assume 90% of the flights have a beverage service. = 3,600 flights with beverage service.
Assume the average plane has 150 seats. Assume the average plane has 80% occupancy = 120 occupied seats. Assume 60% of occupied seats take a cold soda. = 72 seats taking soda per flight.
So they cut 1oz out from the cup size.
3,600 flights * 72 seats * 0.0416667 cost savings = $10,800 cost savings per day from cutting soda portion by 1 ounce. Or savings of $3,942,032 million per year.
Every little bit helps I guess.