Originally Posted by Sean Peever
(Post 31787904)
Is anyone else as amazed as I am that people still 1) read actual paper and 2) read news that happened yesterday?
How dare we read paper! |
Originally Posted by Sean Peever
(Post 31787904)
Is anyone else as amazed as I am that people still 1) read actual paper and 2) read news that happened yesterday?
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Originally Posted by WoodlandCreature
(Post 31787922)
No. Many people are aware of the benefits of a paper-based user interface, and many realize that news and current awareness, including opinion pieces (and comics and the cryptic crossword), do not expire at midnight.
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Originally Posted by FlyerGoldII
(Post 31741684)
I have been noticing fewer and fewer Globe and Mail newspapers (or sometimes not at all) in the domestic MLL which normally carry them?
Maybe fewer Globe and Mail newspapers in business class of flights? What has happened with AC's subscription to this newspaper? |
Originally Posted by WoodlandCreature
(Post 31787922)
No. Many people are aware of the benefits of a paper-based user interface, and many realize that news and current awareness, including opinion pieces (and comics and the cryptic crossword), do not expire at midnight.
It's just so damn outdated by the time you get it. Even the opinion pieces and other things you mention where posted online the day before. Reading a paper is actually the exact opposite of "news" or "current awareness". News, of course, stands for newly received - something that news print no longer is (frankly I don't think it's even right to call it a newspaper anymore with current publications being almost instantly online), if you understand where the name news came from, it actually no longer makes sense to call it a newspaper, and it's not current awareness either - it's awareness of what happened yesterday. |
Originally Posted by Nitehawk
(Post 31775639)
Data point:
Last Saturday I was in the YEG MLL at 19:30 and there were at least 10 G&Ms available. In other MLLs, I have observed staff toss out any/every newspaper that has been removed from the stack, no matter how pristine it may be. |
I find it easier reading printed copies of news,texts….easier and less tiresome(eyes) than reading off a screen or hand held device.
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Data point:
YVR Dom MLL this morning there were a couple of stacks of G&M |
Originally Posted by yyznomad
(Post 31790522)
Data point:
YVR Dom MLL this morning there were a couple of stacks of G&M I didn't see any in the AC Cafe in YYZ this morning, did you? |
Originally Posted by Sean Peever
(Post 31792478)
I didn't see any in the AC Cafe in YYZ this morning, did you?
added: oh gosh darn it peever, you got me again! The cafe isn't a MLL! Duh! And double duh: airplanes aren't an MLL! |
Originally Posted by yyznomad
(Post 31793567)
Nope. Therefore G&M doesn't exist!
added: oh gosh darn it peever, you got me again! The cafe isn't a MLL! Duh! And double duh: airplanes aren't an MLL! lol!! Good randomly seeing you though. |
Data point:
YYZ Dom MLL Tuesday morning - stacks of G&M |
And a reminder of this thread and OP from June 2018
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-...ewspapers.html
Originally Posted by tcook052
(Post 29904581)
https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2018/0...rd-newspapers/
Air Canada, confirms it is eyeing an end date for the distribution of newspapers, with company VP, products Andrew Yiu telling Runway Girl Network that the carrier boards a lot of newspapers “but is getting a lot of wastage because customers have already read it when they wake up” or accessed news via their smart phone or tablet. Even in the lounges, people are using their devices and “getting away from doing physical newspapers”. He believes the carrier will be able to remove paper newspapers from aircraft before the end of 2019. Also @ACYYZ/SD posted this upthread
Originally Posted by ACYYZ/SD
(Post 31743378)
Changing habits. Walked from front to back on a full 787-9 yesterday with the limited stack of newspapers (both aisles) and couldn't deplete the supply.
Guessing that e-Journals a la LX/OS/LH are in the works.
Originally Posted by ACYYZ/SD
(Post 29905517)
Simply because provisioning inventories have been reduced to reflect lack of demand. Gave out 5 Canadian newspapers in J/PY on last nights flight.
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Data point:
Stacks of G&M handed out on AC107 on Tuesday. |
Data point:
On Tuesday, G&M was handed out on AC214. |
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