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Posted: 18 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am

When you grow up making airplanes and throwing them into the wind, how you often wished a strong wind blow you away.

Today back of a continuing global green initiative to cut down waste on paper and preserve the environment Singapore Airlines is introducing electronic 'e' versions of its inflight magazines, hence working towards paper-less airplanes.

This looks to be one of those win-win iniatives as not only does it help the green cause but saving all those printing costs adds up to savings for the airline.

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Saving trees and saving fuel.

Perhaps someone should also suggest putting e-books online, or even audible books as well as movies. They could email the available list to forthcoming passengers and so:

Cut down on hand luggage requirement, reducing space, weight, fuel, trees etc

Audible books would also be good for kids and sight restricted passengers.

David, 30 Aug 2010 | 9:45 am

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