Originally Posted by
mainly tailfirst
Ooh, interesting. I haven't flown in the US for a year, so my experience is obviously out of date. So why is Australia the hold out, I wonder? First we take several months to implement a liquid restriction, "to allow people to adjust" - obviously the threat is somewhat relaxed about getting to Australia - if it exists at all. Then we keep plastic knives after others have removed the restriction. Couldn't have anything to do with an election year could it?
mt
I personally don't have an issue with plastic knives. They are actually quite durable yet flexible (nice for spreading the whipped butter) and lightweight. In addition, they actually
can cut food, just not a human throat I guess. Besides, there are probably about another half-dozen other things in and around that tray that someone could use to kill someone.
To all those that say, "Well, what of steak?", please tell me the last time you actually had a decent steak on an aircraft that
didn't have the texture comparable to the sole of someone's shoe? (If you did actually have a good one, then a Qantas plastic knife would suffice to cut it.)