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Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by odogwu9(m): 10:38am On Jun 06, 2018
Facts about Airports, Airlines and Air Traveling.
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1. All International Airline Pilots speak English.

2. 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.

3. Each airline pilot flying the aircraft, eats a different meal to minimize the risk of all pilots on board being ill.

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

5. An air traveler looses approximately 1.5 liters of water in the body during a three-hour flight.

6. The reason why the lights are turned out during takeoff and landing Is for your eyes to adjust to lower levels of light.

7. The World's largest Airline in terms of Fleet Size is Emirates airline (United Arab Emirates) with 744 aircraft and 121 aircraft on order.

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 of 555 passengers for Emirates airline.

9. The Internet/On-Line check-in was first used by Alaskan Airlines in 1999.

10. The 2nd Largest Airport is Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan. Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates is the largest airport in the world.

11. The airport with the longest runway in the world is Qamdo Bangda Airport in the People’s Republic of China with 5.50 kilometers in length.

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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.

16. Virgin Atlantic lists catering as their third biggest expense, after fuel and maintenance.

17. 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 and 90 thousand cases (9 liter cases) of sparkling wine.

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Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by kelechiMarie(f): 10:51am On Jun 06, 2018
Learnt something new
Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by sirwilson(m): 4:12pm On Jun 06, 2018
Nice one op
Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by Nobody: 10:34pm On Jun 06, 2018
Nigeria Airways...
Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by anibirelawal(m): 10:40pm On Jun 06, 2018
shocked WOW shocked
Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by kenevision(m): 1:24pm On Jun 07, 2018
Wow, now am flying KLM this month.
Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by olujastro: 2:00pm On Jun 07, 2018
18. European airlines are generally stingy with food. You have to pay for any meals or drinks with your debit card even if it's a three hour flight. Whereas airlines in Nigeria serve snacks and drinks for 45 minutes flight.

Couldn't agree more with number 10. I had a connecting flight one time in Dubai and had no clue how large the airport is. After trekking for over 30 minutes, I had to talk with airport security who took me to a free airport shuttle bus. The journey itself to my gate was 20 minutes by bus.
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Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by jayjayjones: 6:50pm On Jun 07, 2018
Interesting topic.
Re: Amazing Facts About Airlines And Travels. .. by giga02(m): 10:22am On Jun 09, 2018
I learnt something new. I heard Doha airport is also massive

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