All International Airline Pilots speak English. - Flights longer than 8 hours require 3 pilots (1 captain and...
- All
International Airline Pilots speak English.
- - Flights
longer than 8 hours require 3 pilots (1 captain and 2 first officers) to
rotate flying duties. Flights longer than 12 hours require 4 pilots (1 captain
and 3 first officers). They usually fly 3-4 hour shifts.
- - Each
airline pilot flying the aircraft, eats a different meal to minimize the risk
of all pilots on board being ill.
- - The normal ratio of
Flight Attendants to passenger seats is one Flight Attendant for every 50
passenger seats.
- - The height
requirement for Flight Attendant is for safety reasons, making sure that all
flight attendants can reach overhead safety equipment.
- - The normal ratio of
Lavatories to passengers is approximately one lavatory for every 50 passengers.
- - An air traveler can
lose approximately 1.5 liters of water in the body during a three-hour flight
- - The reason why the lights are turned out during takeoff
and landing Is for your eyes to adjust to lower levels of light.
If there's an accident and they have to activate the emergency slides, studies
have shown that you will be able to see better and therefore be able to
evacuate more quickly and safely.
- - The World's largest
Airline in terms of Fleet Size is Delta Airlines (United States) with 744
aircraft and 121 aircraft on order as of March 2011.
- - The
largest passenger plane is the Airbus 380 - nearly 240 feet long, almost 80 feet
high, and has a wingspan of more than 260 feet. The double-decker plane has a
standard seating capacity of 555 passengers.
- - The world's busiest
airport in terms of passenger volume or the number of takeoffs and landings, is
HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, United
States with more than 88 million passengers shuffled through the Atlanta
airport in 2009, with another 20 million in the first three months of 2010, and
with aircraft take-off and landings approximately every
37 seconds
- - The Internet/On-Line
check-in was first used by Alaskan Airlines in 1999.
- - .The world's Largest
Airport is Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan (as of 2011). By 2013 Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel
Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates is planned to be the largest airport in the
world.
- - The airport with the
longest runway in the world is Qamdo Bangda Airport in the Peoples Republic of
China with 5.50 kilometers in length (as of 2011).
- - American Airlines
saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first
class.
- - In 2009, Southwest
served 63.2 million cans of soda, juices, and water; 14.3 million alcoholic
beverages; 14 million bags of pretzels; 90 million bags of peanuts; 17.7
million Select-A-Snacks; and 33.5 million other snacks.
- - Singapore Airlines
spends about $700 million on food every year and $16 million on wine alone.
First class passengers consume 20,000 bottles of drinks every month.
- - Cathay Pacific
carries rice cookers, toasters, cappuccino makers and skillets on board their
airplanes.
- - KLM
of Netherlands stands for Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (meaning Royal
Dutch Airlines).
- - KLM is the worlds'
oldest airline established in 1919.
- - QANTAS - Australia's
national airline, originally stood for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service.
- - QANTAS is the second
world's oldest airline established in 1920.
- - QANTAS
still has the world's best safety record with no crashes as of 2011.
- - Virgin Atlantic lists
catering as their third biggest expense, after fuel and maintenance.
- - American Airlines
spent about $425 million on food for domestic passengers in 2001.
- In one year,
British Airways passengers consume:
* 40.5 tons of chicken
* 6 tons of caviar
* 22 tons of smoked salmon
* 557,507 boxes of chocolate
* 90 thousand cases (9 liter cases) of sparkling wine.
- - Abu
Dhabi Airport Services once did a complete turn-around for a Boeing 777 in
under 40 minutes, as opposed to a normal minimum of one hour. They unloaded
passengers, cargo, mail, cleaned the aircraft, and loaded outbound passengers,
cargo and mail in that short time.
- - In 2001, Dubai Duty
Free sold 1,570,214 cartons of cigarettes, 2,909 kilograms of gold,
101,824 watches, 690,502 bottles of perfume, 52,119 mobile phones.
- - In-flight catering is
an $18 billion worldwide industry employing up to 200,000 people.