If they cared about cost at all, they'd be serving pre-brewed coffee and tea. The aviation standard issue coffee machines are incredibly old, wasteful, and stup

If they cared about cost at all, they'd be serving pre-brewed coffee and tea. The aviation standard issue coffee machines are incredibly old, wasteful, and stupid. It works so it stays. The reason why aviation isn't accepting new tech, I think, is because tech industry, especially Web, hasn't earned enough trust with real-time high trust systems. The computer used in the Apollo 11 lander had BSoD multiple times and still landed men on the Moon and back. You can buy a car on virtual credit cards from an iPhone, or view charts and maps for pilots on an iPad, but you can't call airport tower on Discord and ask for landing clearance - I think that's the threshold line up to which aviators trust Web-related techs. By the way, Armed Forces of Ukraine do use Discord for coordinating military operations and requesting artillery barrages. Risks of using untrustworthy technology far outweigh costs of not using it, to them. Maybe there are some clues there?