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Hello Traveler,

Air travels are arguably the fastest and one of the safest ways to travel and explore the world. All the modern day nomads know that, but there are slight chances they and you for that matter don’t know all the 39 facts about air travel. So we’ve prepared a little selection of the juicy facts, trivia and things that’ll make you a small talk star at any sort of social gathering. So, read on traveler! And quote till you drop.

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In 1987, American Airlines saved an estimated $40,000 by giving one less olive in each salad served in first class.#1




#2 In most Western airlines passenger planes are missing thirteenth row.




#3 The most annoying factor in flight for passengers is the sound of a neighbor behind the back of the chair.




#4 The windows in an airport control tower must be tilted out at exactly fifteen degrees from the vertical to minimise reflections from both inside and outside the control tower.




Flight attendants must not have any tattoos visible when a uniform is worn. These requirements are designed to give the airlines a positive representation#5




#6 Turbulence is generally only dangerous when a person is not restrained by a seat belt




#7 In the event of an aircraft having to ditch in water, they are

designed to float for a period of time with the doors above the

waterline




#8 All International Airline Pilots speak English.




#9 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.




#10 Each airline pilot flying the aircraft, eats a different meal

to minimize the risk of all pilots on board being ill.




#11 The normal ratio of Flight Attendants to passenger seats

is one Flight Attendant for every 50 passenger seats.




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




#13 The normal ratio of Lavatories to passengers is

approximately one lavatory for every 50 passengers.




#14 An air traveler can lose approximately 1.5 liters of

water in the body during a three-hour flight.




#15 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.




#10 The World's largest Airline in terms of Fleet Size is Delta Airlines (United States) with 744 aircrafts and 121 aircrafts on order as of March 2011.




#17 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.




#18 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.




#19 The Internet/On-Line check-in was first

used by Alaskan Airlines in 1999.




#20 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.




#21 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).




#22 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.




#23 Cathay Pacific carries rice cookers, toasters, cappuccino

makers and skillets on board their airplanes.




#24 KLM of Netherlands stands for Koninklijke Luchtvaart

Maatschappij (meaning Royal Dutch Airlines).




#25 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.




#26 KLM is the worlds' oldest airline established in 1919.




#27 QANTAS - Australia's national airline, originally stood for

Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service.




#28 Virgin Atlantic lists catering as their third

biggest expense, after fuel and maintenance.




#29 lufthansa is the world’s safest airline of 2013, with 37 points from Air Transport Rating Agency (ATRA) and the Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC).




#30 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.




#31 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.




#32 American Airlines spent about $425 million on food for domestic passengers in 2001.




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




#34 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.




#35What if someone tries to open a door? Before take-off, you will hear the command ‘Doors to automatic and cross check’. Passengers assume that the cabin crew are being told to lock the doors. In fact, the instruction is to put the inflatable evacuation slides on to automatic, so that they shoot out if the door is opened. In practice, plane doors don’t need to be locked because once airborne it’s virtually impossible to open them. That’s partly because of the unusual way they swing — inwards first and then outwards — and the fact that cabin air pressure is so much higher than the surrounding air pressure. As a result, as the plane climbs, the cabin air pressure pushes the door outwards, sealing it into place. The higher the plane flies, the stronger the seal becomes. So strong that it would be impossible for anyone to open it. But, please, don’t try.




#36 Why does my cup of tea taste funny?Proper tea is made with water that has been heated to 100c — the temperature at which it boils on the ground. Unfortunately, in the reduced-pressure environment of an aircraft cabin, the boiling point of water is lowered to around 90c, which means that the brewing process is unsatisfactory. For the same reason, you cannot have a decent cuppa high in the mountains.




#37 Why do planes leave long white trails? These are called vapour trails, or more accurately, con trails (short for condensation trails). Aviation fuel is a hydrocarbon which, when burnt, produces two compounds: carbon dioxide and water. Because of the high temperature of combustion in a jet engine — around 1,300c — water is expelled as a gas but, as it meets the very cold air of the high-altitude atmosphere, it condenses into tiny droplets or, if it’s cold enough, ice crystals. That’s why, if you look closely, there’s always a gap between the plane and the beginning of the vapour trail — it takes a bit of time for the gas to form droplets, so they form some distance behind the plane.




#38What actually lifts the plane into the air?Generations of schoolchildren have been taught that a plane flies because of the curved shape, in cross-section, of its aerofoil wings. This makes the air flow faster over the top and slower over the bottom of the wing, creating high pressure below and a partial vacuum above, literally ‘sucking’ the wing (and the plane) into the sky — the so-called Bernoulli Effect.This is not (quite) correct. In fact how a wing ‘works’ is extremely complex. The most important factor is the simple ‘angle of attack’ of the wing to the air through which it is moving. If the wing is angled slightly upwards, at its leading edge, air will be forced under the wing pushing it up, much like a kite. If the first explanation was correct, planes could never fly upside down — when clearly they can.




#39 QANTAS is the second world's oldest airline established in 1920.

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