Another enhancement - Goodbye water bottles
#1
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Another enhancement - Goodbye water bottles
Great to see NZ introducing another product enhancement - no long will you have to find an place to but your water bottle in P/J
The airline is removing individual plastic water bottles from several flights for Plastic Free July, which it claims will stop more than 460,000 bottles heading to landfills and reduce carbon emissions by more than 300,000kg per year by reducing weight on the aircraft.
source: NewHub
source: NewHub
#2
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I took the press release to mean that they were dropping the large plastic water bottles they use for the meal services in favour of the blue carafes filled with potable water that they use for the water runs.
#3
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Unlike with the newspaper one, this is definitely a change I would 100% support. We all have different opinions on the environment I am sure we have all realised that by now so I respect everyone else's opinion on it, but my take on it is that just because you are doing one bad thing for it (flying a plane) doesn't mean it isn't also a good thing to making smaller changes (removing plastic water bottles).
I have just recently gone mostly vegetarian (at home I eat vegetarian and I will choose vegetarian dishes but if I am offered meat by others or I am in a different culture that is meat heavy I won't say no). That is a much bigger change than just bringing my own water bottle. Fairly certain I can handle that "sacrifice" if I can go vegetarian.
I have just recently gone mostly vegetarian (at home I eat vegetarian and I will choose vegetarian dishes but if I am offered meat by others or I am in a different culture that is meat heavy I won't say no). That is a much bigger change than just bringing my own water bottle. Fairly certain I can handle that "sacrifice" if I can go vegetarian.
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Newshub didn't quite report the story in full. water bottles are only being removed from Works Deluxe, PE and BP on S2S routes under 5 hours.
What I found interesting was their mention that they're also removing individual plastic sauce sachets from BP on North America and Hong Kong flights. It's been about 3 years since I flew BP to/from HKG and I don't recall any sauce sachets nor so I recall ever seeing any on a flight to North America. Does anybody know what they mean by this?
I do know a few years ago the bacon BBQ roll came with a sachet of BBQ sauce for you to apply, but in recent times that or the bagel have some with sauce on it which I just assumed was from a bigger bottle.
The water bottle decision is something I don't fully agree with, I'm somebody who does drink a lot of water but typically don't take a bottle with me on a plane. Do I just ask for a whole 1.5L bottle now?!
What I found interesting was their mention that they're also removing individual plastic sauce sachets from BP on North America and Hong Kong flights. It's been about 3 years since I flew BP to/from HKG and I don't recall any sauce sachets nor so I recall ever seeing any on a flight to North America. Does anybody know what they mean by this?
I do know a few years ago the bacon BBQ roll came with a sachet of BBQ sauce for you to apply, but in recent times that or the bagel have some with sauce on it which I just assumed was from a bigger bottle.
The water bottle decision is something I don't fully agree with, I'm somebody who does drink a lot of water but typically don't take a bottle with me on a plane. Do I just ask for a whole 1.5L bottle now?!
#5
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Newshub didn't quite report the story in full. water bottles are only being removed from Works Deluxe, PE and BP on S2S routes under 5 hours.
What I found interesting was their mention that they're also removing individual plastic sauce sachets from BP on North America and Hong Kong flights. It's been about 3 years since I flew BP to/from HKG and I don't recall any sauce sachets nor so I recall ever seeing any on a flight to North America. Does anybody know what they mean by this?
I do know a few years ago the bacon BBQ roll came with a sachet of BBQ sauce for you to apply, but in recent times that or the bagel have some with sauce on it which I just assumed was from a bigger bottle.
The water bottle decision is something I don't fully agree with, I'm somebody who does drink a lot of water but typically don't take a bottle with me on a plane. Do I just ask for a whole 1.5L bottle now?!
What I found interesting was their mention that they're also removing individual plastic sauce sachets from BP on North America and Hong Kong flights. It's been about 3 years since I flew BP to/from HKG and I don't recall any sauce sachets nor so I recall ever seeing any on a flight to North America. Does anybody know what they mean by this?
I do know a few years ago the bacon BBQ roll came with a sachet of BBQ sauce for you to apply, but in recent times that or the bagel have some with sauce on it which I just assumed was from a bigger bottle.
The water bottle decision is something I don't fully agree with, I'm somebody who does drink a lot of water but typically don't take a bottle with me on a plane. Do I just ask for a whole 1.5L bottle now?!
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Newshub didn't quite report the story in full. water bottles are only being removed from Works Deluxe, PE and BP on S2S routes under 5 hours.
What I found interesting was their mention that they're also removing individual plastic sauce sachets from BP on North America and Hong Kong flights. It's been about 3 years since I flew BP to/from HKG and I don't recall any sauce sachets nor so I recall ever seeing any on a flight to North America. Does anybody know what they mean by this?
I do know a few years ago the bacon BBQ roll came with a sachet of BBQ sauce for you to apply, but in recent times that or the bagel have some with sauce on it which I just assumed was from a bigger bottle.
The water bottle decision is something I don't fully agree with, I'm somebody who does drink a lot of water but typically don't take a bottle with me on a plane. Do I just ask for a whole 1.5L bottle now?!
What I found interesting was their mention that they're also removing individual plastic sauce sachets from BP on North America and Hong Kong flights. It's been about 3 years since I flew BP to/from HKG and I don't recall any sauce sachets nor so I recall ever seeing any on a flight to North America. Does anybody know what they mean by this?
I do know a few years ago the bacon BBQ roll came with a sachet of BBQ sauce for you to apply, but in recent times that or the bagel have some with sauce on it which I just assumed was from a bigger bottle.
The water bottle decision is something I don't fully agree with, I'm somebody who does drink a lot of water but typically don't take a bottle with me on a plane. Do I just ask for a whole 1.5L bottle now?!
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Everybody knows that plastic cup is my pet peeve about PE. It was hilarious to read a review yesterday from somebody who thought exactly the same thing.
#12
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It's still a plastic cup (well it was last week TT). They're swapping to recyclable plastic for cups later in the year.
Everybody knows that plastic cup is my pet peeve about PE. It was hilarious to read a review yesterday from somebody who thought exactly the same thing.
Everybody knows that plastic cup is my pet peeve about PE. It was hilarious to read a review yesterday from somebody who thought exactly the same thing.
#14
Join Date: Apr 2018
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Was literally just about to post about this as just got off my first flight this month. It’s not the removal of the water per se - I know I can press the call button and get more. It’s the gradual degradation of the BP product I’m disappointed about and that this cut just kind of shoved back in my face. Thus far we have:
- slippers gone
- moisturiser gone
- pens gone
- linen towels gone
- bottled water gone
- prawns gone
All for the removal of waste - but this just seems to be cost cutting wrapped up as environmentalism.
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Yep, that's MY pet peeve.
If they were the economy wines from 15 years ago, that would be fine. But my god some of those wines are dire now. That foul cab/merlot! That sparkling swill Dulcet!! Those watery thin pinot noirs!!! You can be assured of a drinkable sav blanc, but anything beyond that is a super lucky break, which is really a depressing turn of events considering how good the Y class wines were once upon a time.
If they were the economy wines from 15 years ago, that would be fine. But my god some of those wines are dire now. That foul cab/merlot! That sparkling swill Dulcet!! Those watery thin pinot noirs!!! You can be assured of a drinkable sav blanc, but anything beyond that is a super lucky break, which is really a depressing turn of events considering how good the Y class wines were once upon a time.