Airports websites

Hello Year 3 use the facts and websites below to find out some facts about airports, write the facts into your homework book and they will help you with our English and IPC work next week, remember not to write down anything that you don't understand and to only choose the information that you think is the most interesting and/or important.

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Facts about Heathrow Airport

• The site on which Heathrow stands was first developed in 1930 as an aircraft test site with a single grass runway.

• The airport was originally called London Airport, and was not renamed ‘Heathrow’ until 1966.

 

• The first flight to take off from Heathrow was to Argentina.

• In the days when there were only two terminals, they were called ‘Europa’ and ‘Oceanic’, now known as Terminals 2 and 3 respectively.

• 70,000 people work at Heathrow.

• The airport handles 67m passengers a year, making it Europe’s busiest airport, and the world’s third busiest, after Atlanta and Beijing.

• Together, Heathrow’s two runways stretch for 4.7 miles.

• The five most popular international destinations for passengers travelling from Heathrow are, in order: New York, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.

• In 2008/9, Heathrow landing fees were set at a maximum of £12.80 per passenger.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT AIRLINES, AIRPORTS AND AIR TRAVELING

 

• All International Airline Pilots speak English.

 

• 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.

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

 

•On average, pilots fly between 9 and 14 days a month

 

•All airlines have an agreement to let each others' travelling pilots occupy empty seats. If no seats are available, the travelling pilot can also occupy an extra seat in the cockpit that is usually empty.

 

•The main function of flight attendants are for the safety and security of their passengers, and passenger comfort is only secondary.

 

•The first female flight attendants in 1930 were required to weigh less than 115 pounds. In addition, they had to be nurses and unmarried.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

•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.

 

•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.

 

•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.

 

•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.

 

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

 

 

•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).

 

•American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class.

 

 

•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.

 

•Cathay Pacific carries rice cookers, toasters, cappuccino makers and skillets on board their airplanes.

 

 

 

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

 

 

•QUANTAS is the second world’s oldest airline established in 1920.

 

 

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

 

•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.