Travel Trivia from Terminal Traveler.
Did you know:
In 2006 the TSA:
- Screened 708,400,522. The average wait time was 3.79 minutes and the average peak wait time was 11.76 minutes.
- Screened 535,020,271 individual pieces of checked luggage and opened 16 percent of these checked bags (85,571,710 bags) searching for prohibited items
- Intercepted 13,709,211 prohibited items at our security checkpoints, 11,616,249 were lighters and 1,607,100 were knives.
There are approximately 49,315commercial airline flights per day
Only the Boeing 747-SP can fly as high as 43,000 feet most airplanes top out at 41,000. The Concorde, however, was able to fly up to 60,000 feet
Taking approximately 18 hours, the longest scheduled non-stop commercial flight at the moment is flown by Singapore Airlines from Newark New Jersey to Singapore on an Airbus A340-500.
Approximately 6 million pieces make up a Jumbo Jet.
The average flight takes 6 minutes to unload all of it’s passengers.
A 747 Jumbo Jet has 24 tires, 20 on themain landing gear and 4 on the nose landing gear
The 747-8I has a maximum fuel capacity of 64,225 U.S. gallons, enough to fill 2, 470 Chevy Tahoe’s
Based on fatalities, Qantas is the safest airline in the world to fly.
An incident with fatalities occurs only once every 15 to 16 million flights.
Two Tickets on the maiden flight of the Airbus A380 sold for over $100,000 making them the most expensive airlines tickets ever sold. I wonder if he got extra peanuts?
The Ty Warner Penthouse in the Four Seasons in New York City goes for $34,000 per night
The largest hotel in the world is the First World Hotel in Malaysia with 6, 118 rooms.
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