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'Emirates A380 Shower Spa': https://www.emirates.com/english/experience/our-fleet/a380/ https://www.emirates.com/english/experience/our-fleet/a380/ First class

• throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  Don't planes burn enough fossil fuels without carting around a few extra tons of water quite unnecessarily. Market efficiency, yeah right.
  • kortilla 6y ago
    First, your napkin math is shit. They aren’t carrying 6000 pounds of water for the 14 first class seats to get 5 minute showers. Second, the water they use per person weighs less than the weight of the extra passengers that could be fitted in if the arrangement wasn’t first class cabins but was instead economy. First class passengers are where all of the margin is. Finally, you don’t seem to understand what “market efficiency” means because it has nothing to do with this.
    • throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
      You're right https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/11132/how-much-water-does-the-emirates-a380-carry-in-order-to-provide-onboard-showers https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/11132/how-much-... it's much less (350 KG). Elsewhere they do say the showers are marble and mirror. So extra weight. I assumed without checking there would be lots of first class passengers, got it wrong. > you don’t seem to understand what “market efficiency” means If the fossil fuels were costed appropriately, there'd likely be no flying, certainly nothing like this. So its mispriced, is what I mean.