Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill From: bill@persci.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: $1288 ashtrays ($7200 coffeepots on airplanes) Message-ID: <343@persci.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:04:21 EDT Article-I.D.: persci.343 Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:04:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 01:10:18 EDT References: <6400034@hp-pcd.UUCP> <717@vortex.UUCP> <2608@amdcad.UUCP> <1052@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan) Distribution: na Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA Lines: 20 Summary: Cost$ = f(complexity), not f(volume) In article <1052@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes: >> [Phil Ngai] [...]These responsible >> journalists somehow failed to uncover or report the fact that Delta >> Airlines, buying from a commercial vendor like Lockheed, pays around $4000 >> for an item with similar functionality.[...] ...But I must conclude that >> coffee pots on airplanes are much more complicated than the kind that >> K-mart sells and that's why they cost so much more. > Of course, Delta has to serve coffee to a few hundred passengers out of >their coffee pots. I guess the military has some transport jets which can >carry similar numbers of passengers but seriously doubt if the $7200 number >is referring to such a coffee pot. [...] >Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j > "My SO ain't doodly squat.. Jeff, please re-read Phil's statement. The problem is the *complexity* of the pot, *not* the number of people served from it. Sure, making larger quantities of coffee probably increases the expense of the pot, but as in ground-based pots, it's not very big. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill