Help The Airlines Save Money

[Apache Warrior]

Pee before boarding.

A JAPANESE airline has started asking passengers to use the toilet before boarding to reduce aircraft weight. All Nippon Airways has announced that ?loo monitors? will be positioned by the boarding gates in terminals to ask waiting passengers to relive themselves before entering the aircraft.

The airline believes that empty bladders will equal lighter passengers, which will mean lighter aircraft and therefore a reduction in fuel use, Japan?s NHK television reports.

All Nippon Airways began the strange policy on October 1 as an experiment, which will last one month.

However, it may expand the trial if it?s successful and well-received by passengers.

It hopes to achieve a five-tonne reduction in carbon emissions over the month.

Apache

[Skud]

Yeah, I heard this one on the radio recently...pretty easy way to say you're going green, isn't it?

[Sirex]

Well think about it really, that urines gotta weigh something, so make all those passengers goto the toilet before, that takes off some weight if they have full bladders.

[Skud]

Well think about it really, that urines gotta weigh something, so make all those passengers goto the toilet before, that takes off some weight if they have full bladders.

Yeah, if there are 300 ppl on the plane and they all squirt out a pound, it's 300 lbs less...a difference, yes...and every difference counts a little. But if 200 of those people were already smart enough to take a leak before beginning a 24 hour flight, I can't really jump up and down over the company's amazing discovery and sacrifice in this! (it's not like a hybrid airplane or whatever)

[DougBob]

I still say they need to install methane gathering devices in every seat to help save on fuel

[jaspurr]

And next they will be doing BMI calculations on every passenger and charging if you are over the average.

[Apache Warrior]

And next they will be doing BMI calculations on every passenger and charging if you are over the average.

Apache

[Skud]

I still say they need to install methane gathering devices in every seat to help save on fuel

Lol: poo!