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A New Era of Inflight Cups Is Coming
26.12.2023 - 17:11 / afar.com / Amelia Deluca
Soon, whether you drink coffee, wine, water, ginger ale, or any other beverage on a Delta Air Lines flight, it’ll be served in a paper cup.
This month, the airline announced it had begun testing a new prototype cup on some transcontinental domestic routes. While Delta has long used paper cups for coffee and tea, these new cups won’t be the same—largely because they don’t have the plastic lining commonly found in paper cups, meaning they are compostable and recyclable. It’s something the airline has been working on for several years, as the cups needed to stand up to both hot and cold drinks and the dissolving effects of alcohol (and needed to be stackable and easy for flight attendants to separate).
Once approved, these new paper cups will replace the old paper and plastic cups currently used on board its fleet of planes. It’s an effort the carrier said will eliminate nearly seven million pounds (roughly the equivalent weight of 1,300 pickup trucks or 77 Boeing 737s) of single-use plastic each year.
“As an airline, our main goal is to decarbonize our business—a lot of which will come from what we fly, how we fly, and the fuel we use,” Delta’s chief sustainability officer, Amelia DeLuca, said in a statement. “But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also focus on what we can do right now within our own operation to be more sustainable. These cups are a great example of how Delta is working to address our impact through what we can control today. They’re a highly visible and tangible example for our customers and our people of how Delta is taking our commitment to embed sustainability in everything we do seriously.”
Delta has yet to commit to a date when all the planes will have the new cups on board but has said it would wrap up testing sometime in spring 2024. The plastic cups will return to the aircraft briefly while enough of the new paper cups are manufactured to meet the needs of Delta’s fleet of nearly 1,000 airplanes, after which the new beverage receptacles will be rolled out permanently.
When Delta finishes the roll-out of the new paper cups, it’ll be the second U.S. airline to do away with plastic—in January 2023, Alaska Airlines announced it had finished transitioning away from plastic cups. The Seattle-based carrier has used responsible-sourced paper cups and boxed water containers for the last year.
Efforts to ban single-use plastics in the aviation industry are happening on the ground, too. Both Los Angeles International Airport and San Francisco International Airport now prohibit the sale of single-use plastic water bottles at in-terminal stores. Fliers can still purchase water in the airport, though they’ll now be sold in paper cartons or bottles made out of glass or aluminum (travelers can
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