American Airlines has won regulatory approval to swap flight attendants' paper manuals for lighter Samsung tablets in a change that will save nearly US$1mil (RM3.19mil) a year, the company said on Wednesday.
The move, which does not yet affect attendants at American Airlines Group Inc's subsidiary US Airways, comes little more than a year after American's cockpit went paperless, and is one of many strategies that airlines have pursued to reduce weight and fuel costs.
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