In a recent Airlines expo in our bank, I picked up a brochure from Lufthansa Airlines which shows the seating arrangements in both Airbus & Boeing. Everything is given in German & English for ex - Sitze/Seats, Telefon/Telephone, but the size of the seats is given in inches only. They know very well that atleast 50 % of the airline passengers in US know SI, but still they did not mention SI. On ther other hand they have used German language which is known by less than 5 % of the Americans. There are governments to promote the language of their country, but no one to promote SI, other than the industry groups. But the fact is 65 % of the airline passengers are Americans and we can expect non-SI to rule the air for quite sometime. But an effort by Airline companies in this direction can change it. It will be better if Asean, Japan & China sit besides the Europeans when it comes to talks on measurements. Madan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
