MelissaA
Brenton
Shilpa Karhik
High Flying Facts on AIRLINES
July 12th 2007 00:25
AMERICAN AIRLINES spent about $425 million on food for domestic passengers in 2001.
In 2001, DUBAI DUTY FREE sold 1,570,214 cartons of cigarettes, 2,003,151 bottles of liquor, 2,909 kilograms of gold, 101,824 watches, 690,502 bottles of perfume, 52,119 mobile phones ... and the list goes on
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 aircraft are equipped with toasters, cappuccino makers, rice cookers and skillets.
A KLM 747-400 flight from Amsterdam to Australia carries an average of just over 1,000 kilograms of food, and some 1,324 litres of drink - from mineral water to wine and whisky.
AMERICAN AIRLINES saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
In 1 year, BRITISH AIRWAYS passengers consume:
* 40.5 tonnes of chicken
* 6 tonnes of caviar
* 22 tonnes of smoked salmon
* 557,507 boxes of chocolate
* 90 thousand cases (9 litre cases) of sparkling wine.
In-flight catering is an $18 billion worldwide industry employing up to 200,000 people.
VIRGIN ATLANTIC says catering is its third biggest cost after fuel and engineering-maintenance.
KLM is the worlds' oldest airline established in 1919.
QANTAS, not far behind KLM in start up, still has the world's best safety record with no crashes.
In 2001, DUBAI DUTY FREE sold 1,570,214 cartons of cigarettes, 2,003,151 bottles of liquor, 2,909 kilograms of gold, 101,824 watches, 690,502 bottles of perfume, 52,119 mobile phones ... and the list goes on
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.
A KLM 747-400 flight from Amsterdam to Australia carries an average of just over 1,000 kilograms of food, and some 1,324 litres of drink - from mineral water to wine and whisky.
AMERICAN AIRLINES saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
In 1 year, BRITISH AIRWAYS passengers consume:
* 40.5 tonnes of chicken
* 6 tonnes of caviar
* 22 tonnes of smoked salmon
* 557,507 boxes of chocolate
* 90 thousand cases (9 litre cases) of sparkling wine.
In-flight catering is an $18 billion worldwide industry employing up to 200,000 people.
VIRGIN ATLANTIC says catering is its third biggest cost after fuel and engineering-maintenance.
KLM is the worlds' oldest airline established in 1919.
QANTAS, not far behind KLM in start up, still has the world's best safety record with no crashes.
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
being a pilot myself, albeit not a commercial one, this was a really interesting read for me...
And if I could fly Quantas everywhere I went? I'd constantly be in the air! Commercial carriers, scare the piss outta me....
LOL
Take care,
Nick