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.





