http://www.dailytenminutes.com/2012/07/interesting-facts-about-airports.html



1. All International Airline Pilots speak English.

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English language became compulsory in 2008 to improve safety

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2. The world's busiest airport in terms of passenger volume or the number of takeoffs and landings, is Hartsfield Jackson 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.


What’s the busiest airport in the world? Well, depends on what you mean by “busy.” If you’re going by most passengers per year, that title would go to Chicago’s O’Hare, which over took Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson as the world’s busiest in 2014. O’Hare also boasts the most take-offs and landings. When it comes to international travelers, Dubai takes the cake. Meanwhile, Hong Kong International Airport handles the most cargo traffic annually.

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3. 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.

4. The normal ratio of Flight Attendants to passenger seats is one Flight Attendant for every 50 passenger seats.

5. .The height requirement for Flight Attendant is for safety reasons, making sure that all flight attendants can reach overhead safety equipment.

Explorers:
2. The world's busiest airport in terms of passenger volume or the number of takeoffs and landings, is Hartsfield Jackson 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.

Wow... I could remember when I was doing my IT with FAAN at MAKIA, Kano. We used to have just two airplane daily (dat's during d day time).... The busiest day is mainly Thursdays that we can have up to 7 flights....

That time eh... when ever dia is no power during the day, na wen flight done dey approach na him we deh go on gen....

6. 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.

7. The normal ratio of Lavatories to passengers is approximately one lavatory for every 50 passengers.

8. .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 of555 passengers.

9. .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.

10. Singapore Airlines spends about $700 million on food every year and $16 million on wine alone. First class passengers consume 20,000 bottles of alcohol every month and Singapore Airlines is the second largest buyer of Dom Perignon champagne in the world.

11. KLM of Netherlands stands for Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (meaning Royal Dutch Airlines).

12. KLM is the worlds' oldest airline established in 1919.

13. 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.

14. 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-flight catering is an $18 billion worldwide industry employing up to 200,000 people.

15. An air traveler can lose approximately 1.5 liters of water in the body during a three-hour flight.

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16. A Boeing 727 took off in 2003 and has been missing ever since.

On May 25, 2003, pilot Benjamin Padilla, took off in the 727 he'd purchased from American Airlines two years earlier. The plane then disappeared forever. No one knows where it is. Padilla's sister has toldauthorities she believes Padilla crashed somewhere in Africa or that he is being held against his will.

17. The white trail a plane leaves in the sky can be used to predict the weather.

The contrails planes leave behind are made of water vapor. A thin, shorter-lasting tail indicates low-humidity air and fair weather. A thick, longer-lasting tail could signify the early indicators of a storm.

18. "Blunder Trophies" used to be given to pilots who made ridiculous mistakes.


The National Museum of the US Air Force displays "Blunder Trophies" from the 1920's and the early 1930's presented at the McCook and Wright Fields. These trophies were given to silly pilots who made mistakes like taxiing into a parked airplane or taking off without enough fuel.

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