Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21041 posts, RR: 60 Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1472 times:
If AA has metal knives, that is new.
QF is still using plastic knives.
CO switched back to metal knives LONG ago.
Haven't been on other F or J for a while, so I can't comment on that.
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Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22240 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1465 times:
Actually their return of was approved well over a year ago, however in general most US airlines chose to continue using plastic ware.
However many international carriers have since returned to using their regular silverware on US services.
I always found the ban somewhat ridiculous anyhow as there are plenty of other items that could be used as weapons and the only thing the ban did was make it harder to eat my meal!
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Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21041 posts, RR: 60 Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1430 times:
Quoting Laxintl (Reply 2): I always found the ban somewhat ridiculous anyhow as there are plenty of other items that could be used as weapons and the only thing the ban did was make it harder to eat my meal!
Not to mention that when eating a fine F meal, it's really silly to open your nice linen napkin and find quality stainless forks and spoons, and dinky white (or on AA, clear) plastic knives...
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AACUN From Mexico, joined Jan 2004, 445 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1405 times:
Silverware has been back for at least 3 months now.... It was first introduced in Asia and Europe then the premium Latin American markets..... and as far as I know, it's back wherever meals are served on int'l flights..... Of course only in the premium cabins, F/C and B/C only. Coach still gets plastic utensils when we do serve a meal !!!!! Cannot tell you about domestic.... That's a whole different ball game. I'll try to find out, or if anyone has flown domestic lately in F/C with a meal service then please let us know. And yes, we did get used to serving the plastic stuff, and it weights nothing, so it was odd lifting the trays again with the real stuff, but its all a matter of getting used to it. And I even like it better than what we used to have before. Pax also appreciate having it back.
Evan767 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 2957 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1402 times:
Yes, DL had it in J when I flew ATL-JNB. The knife seemed no sharper than a plastic one though. Really made no difference.
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EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5522 posts, RR: 57 Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1375 times:
CO now has metal cutlery on all it's international destinations. The hold outs were all UK and Italy destinations. The governments were imposing their rules on what to board.
Now that they have implemented new rules, we have new cutlery, albeit, a different design from the normal ones (you will see a difference in the B/F cutlery). You will seee the new silverware on UK and Italy flights. And the occasional swap when catering mixes it up.
Should prove to be very interesting when catering receives non-approved cutlery in a UK or Italy station. Time will tell. I foresee a change to the new cutlery for all cities to alleviate any potential problem (this is my own humble opinion, mind you).
Ckfred From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 4684 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1359 times:
I read in the Wall Street Journal that AA was going back to metal utensils in premium cabins, as well as coach on international flights with meal service, Europe, Asia, and South America.
Frankly, this is long overdue. I was on a breakfast snack flight from LAS to ORD. Cutting an omelet and under-ripe fruit with plastic utensils was a pain in the neck.
ABQopsHP From United States of America, joined May 2006, 837 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1264 times:
I also found the ban hypocritical. The TSA allows some of the most amazing things through security, and yet there were no butter knifes in the galley. However! I recall a pax being alowed to take a 5 iron on board. Gee I wonder what would do more harm?
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21041 posts, RR: 60 Reply 11, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1261 times:
Quoting ABQopsHP (Reply 10): I recall a pax being alowed to take a 5 iron on board. Gee I wonder what would do more harm?
A knife. Unless it was a trick five iron with a point under a removable head?
Swinging a five iron on board isn't that easy. You need a nice open field or a parking lot to do any real damage to someone with a golf club. Or at least that's what TV has taught me...
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ABQopsHP From United States of America, joined May 2006, 837 posts, RR: 3 Reply 12, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1252 times:
HAHA yep Ikramerica....make a little room in the den for that swing I guess. OR did you want a new TV anyway?
ScandinA340 From Australia, joined Apr 2004, 89 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1196 times:
It's not a QF thing... the Australian government requires all flights ex/to Australia to not use metal knives (forks and spoons okay). SQ actually puts a note on their menus ex Australia apologising to pax for the requirement, but will gladly use metal knives on EU-SIN flights (for instance).
VHXLR8 From Australia, joined Feb 2005, 500 posts, RR: 3 Reply 14, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1173 times:
Quoting ScandinA340 (Reply 13): SQ actually puts a note on their menus ex Australia apologising to pax for the requirement, but will gladly use metal knives on EU-SIN flights (for instance).
SQ seems to relish any opportunity to badmouth the Australian government; I wonder why!?!?
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