Dubai's Emirates airline is to replace metal cutlery on flights to Britain with plastic knives, forks and spoons in compliance with a new British security directive, a newspaper reported Monday.
The airline is considering expanding the move to cover all its flights in response to reports that the hijackers of flights which crashed into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington last week used metal cutlery as weapons, the Gulf News said.
Qatar Airways has already complied with the new terms for British flights and is expanding the policy across its network of 28 international destinations.
But a spokesman for Gulf Air - owned by the UAE emirate of Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar - told Gulf News the carrier would not immediately consider scrapping metal cutlery and would instead adopt a "wait and see" approach -- DUBAI (AFP)
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