- .Around $640 billion earns the airline industry all over the world each year. Only US airline industry makes about $170 billion in revenue.
- Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the U.S. is the world’s busiest airport.
- New Bangkok International Airport of Thailand, has the world’s tallest air traffic control (ATC), tower standing 132.2m (434ft).
- Some airports can be bigger than the size of an entire country. King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia sits on 192,000 acres of land—that’s bigger than the entire country of Bahrain.
- Out of the total number of airports in the world, one-third are located in the U.S.
- The Antonov AN-225 cargo jet is the largest plane in the world.
- The North Maeric X-15 is the fastest supersonic airplane. It can fly at a speed of 6.7 Mach (7,200 km/h). In other words, it can fly at 6.7 times the speed of sound.
- If you want to take the world’s longest flight, you would have to board the flight from Sydney to Dallas in an Airbus A380 aircraft — the powerful aiplane in the world that can fly a distance of 15,700 kilometers nonstop at a cruising speed of Mach 0.85, or 900 kilometers per hour.
- The majority of commercial pilots are paid for the number of hours they fly and not on a monthly basis like in most of the working fields.
- All international airline pilots speak English, which is a prerequisite.
- Did you know that about 20% of people are afraid of flying? This is the advertisement of Qantas airlines — the world’s safest airline according charts.
- The place near the tail of an airplane is the safest to be.
- Emirates Airlines operates the biggest fleet of Airbus A380s. They have 67 of these aircraft in operation, while another 73 are ordered and will be delivered by Airbus in the coming years. And no wonder why — A380 carries 323,546 liters, or 85,472 US gallons of fuel. If you want to buy an A380-800, you should prepare the amount of $428 million.
- If the distance covered by the entire fleet of Boeing 747s is added up, you could make 75,000 trips to the moon and back.
- Looking for really profitable job? You should know that the sphere of airline companies’ business is an $18-billion industry that employs above 200 000 people — qualified and well-trained individuals to deliver the best services for all passengers.