He said he did not know how it got into the cabin but said a member of the catering or maintenance staff might have left it there accidentally.
At the moment, 70% of alliances have code-sharing and 50% have frequent-flier programmes, but only 15%, according to the BCG report, try and save costs by sharing such facilities as catering, training, maintenance and aircraft-buying.
Nurses and teachers found themselves guests in Carillion buildings where the company ran cleaning, catering and maintenance.
Other members of EVA Air's board manage support and service services of the company, including its catering and maintenance divisions.
Opel, for example, has outsourced its payroll, catering, cleaning, security, maintenance, transport and all manner of other things.
Cleaning, catering and building maintenance at the struggling school were to be outsourced to a private company.
A follow-up instruction five years later stipulated 25 categories of work suitable for "civilianisation", from uncontroversial areas such as catering and car maintenance to police photography, fingerprint analysis and even processing sensitive intelligence work.The reason is simple: private firms are often cheaper.
Among the landside services are those related to ground passenger handling; these include check-in, security, customs and immigration, baggage delivery, information, catering, cleaning and maintenance, shops and concessionary facilities, automobile rental, ground transportation, porters, special help for the elderly and handicapped, automobile parking, and public transportation (including taxis).
As each act and aria of the opera unfolds you move to a different area: from reception to lounge bar, from conference room to luxury suite and – most interestingly – into the hidden "below-stairs" spaces where the catering, laundry and maintenance staff are based.
In addition, the corporation earns revenue from airline catering and the maintenance and overhauling of aircraft through a number of its subsidiaries, including Vietnam Airlines Engineering Company and Vietnam Airlines Caterers.
