Interesting Facts about Commercial Airlines

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Most of the people fascinate about entertainment news, very few about politics but everyone shows a perpetual interest regarding airlines right from a minute error did by a flight attendant to a major crash of the plane.

So here we compiled some of the interesting and little-known facts about commercial airlines that you may not have heard or read before. Before that, if you’re planning a family tour or going abroad for studies get lowest ever prices on flight tickets with us.

Following are some of the interesting and little-known facts about airlines:

On an average, airplanes get struck by lightning once a year but they were designed with a resistance power to handle it well. Rarely, planes have to land because of a lightning strike.

American wide-body commercial giant airliner and cargo, the Boeing 747 fleet has logged more than seventy-eight billion kilometers that is equivalent to nearly 1/10th million trips to the moon and back.

The most powerful jet engine will produce over 1, 10,000 horsepower. To understand the scale you might want to consider the car that we own whose engine produces may be a little over 100 horsepower.

Steve Rothstein, the man grounded by airlines for flying too much that costs $21,000,000 for American Airlines. Back in the 1980s, the airline’s company launched a program called AAirpass, which offered an unlimited first-class lifetime travel pass to the fliers at a onetime price of $2, 50,000. Because of Steve’s enormous trips, the American airlines terminated his ticket in 2008.

A plane won’t drop to the ground as soon as all of its engines fail. It can always glide to a certain distance with respect to its glide ratio. For example, a Boeing 747 has a glide ratio of 15:1 means it can glide for about 15 feet forward for a drop in altitude of 1 ft that approximately 150km from a cruising altitude of 33000ft.

Now forecast weather and mesmerize your friends and family members. Here is the hack; using the leftover white smoke from a plane, one can easily predict the weather. A thin and shorter-lasting tail of smoke indicates low-humidity of air, hence a fair weather. But a thick and longer-lasting tail of smoke could signify the early indicators of a storm.

Some random facts of aviation that you might never know:

  • KLM stands as the world’s oldest airline, established in 1919
  • At Chicago’s Airport, an aircraft takes off or lands for every 37 seconds
  • Pilots and co-pilots are needed to eat different meals to avoid illness in case of food poisoning
  • A commercial aircraft fly at an average speed of 800 km/hr.
  • The maximum speed of a Boeing 747 is 955 km/hr.
  • 70% of aircraft today are over 70% more fuel-efficient than jets in the 1960s
  • The online check-in and check-out was first introduced by Alaska Airlines in 1999
  • ‘QANTAS’ invented business class in 1979
  • 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying due to the airplane’s cabin pressure

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