March 23, 2008

Airbus A380: But why has it got ashtrays?

The Telegraph finds out why are there still ashtrays in the Airbus A380 which is being sold as the aircraft of the future.

This brand-new cutting-edge plane has been constructed with built-in ashtrays – and, for that matter, wholly redundant, always-illuminated no-smoking signs. When I asked a spokesman for Singapore Airlines, he confessed that even the company's CEO had been baffled as to what they were doing there.

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Submitted by lancerlord on March 22//11:54am and published by jseng, tinkertailor :: 2694 reads | trackback
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Jeez. The answer to that inane question is in the next para of the article! (i.e. the rule was implemented by the FAA) Oddly enough, I've come to expect such dumb anachronistic rules from them.