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>Also, "hundreds of kilograms" is not a lot if you consider how much the rest of the plane weighs

Reports annual savings of about $300k by shaving a few grams off each of the pamphlets they stick in the seats.

That's about 0.0006% of United's revenue.

Or more like 0.006% of their profit. And this paint thing looks to be about 100x more weight difference, so perhaps 0.6% of their profit.

mmmm profit

Think about it as a small, seeminlgy useless change and giving your company 0.0006% more revenue.

Now every employee applies the same mindset and the company starts to fly (pun intended).

Or otherwise, you just not care about everything lose money everywhere.