Sad to see so many stupid replies
So many of the posts in this thread only show how there should be an IQ test to be able to breed. People who can't do maths an eight year old could handle eg which is bigger 38, or 38x100,000 flights? Some say pilots are no more than train drivers - well clearly, these idiots never think much about anything outside of their own immediate needs ("gimme a muffin, dude"). Others just don't read the posts and reiterate the same bunch of crap.
Of course, I realise there are a number of teenagers on here who always post negatively against anything that is remotely mentioning anything from Apple in a positive light. I also realise there is a large dichotomy between the numbers of people in the US with high levels of education and those with no more than than a 14 year old - but really! Not all Windows users can be so thick, can they?
Pilots are clever people. Aeroplanes are designed by super-brainy people. The FAA is staffed by very nit-picky people paid by Washington to keep you safe by making sure pilots are trained and planes are well built and designed to be safe. Airlines are there to make money - get over it.
As for all the other options to save weight, you don't think they already do that? And you think it is OK to save weight on 90% of the things you discovered you can save weight on, and then say that a further improvement is not allowed "because Apple invented it"? Are you mad?
As for the person who wouldn't buy anything that had green on the box, that is plain unbelievable. If something does the job faster, better and cheaper, what does it matter if it is also more energy efficient? Don't you think saving fuel dollars is a good thing? Won't your stock prices and 401k go up if the companies make bigger profits? Oh, I forgot, Rush Limbaugh is giving out free fuel vouchers to airlines paid for out of Tea Party press appearances when they were talking down the credit rating of the USD in Congress... but no, not allowed to use them if it says 'green' on the box...
Don't get a job in business, the airline industry, or in anything that involves mulitplication. Actually, why not jump off a cliff with glued on feathers on because that's what makes birds fly, right? It's got nothing to do with weight...