11 Crazy Aviation Facts You Didn't Know Until You Read This Blog

#1 Arophobia

80% of the world’s population is afraid of flying — it's called aerophobia.

#2 Online check-in

Online check-in was first introduced by Alaska Airlines in 1999.

#3 Business class

Qantas Airways was the first airline in the world that introduced the business class — in 1979

#4 Busiest International flight route in 2023

Although pretty close to each other, Kuala Lumpur to Singapore is the busiest international route.

#5 Dirtiest part on an airplane

One part of the aircraft that never gets cleaned is the back seat pocket. Filthier than the toilet that gets sanitised every day.

#6 Air travel is the safest

The likelihood that your flight crashes is extremely low. Actually this likeliness is about 0.000024%. 80% of all plane crashes happen during take-off and landing.

#7 Lost bags

In 2022, 26 million bags were mishandled, compared to 9.9 million in 2021.

#8 Fuel

The Airbus A320 has an average total fuel capacity of between 6,400 to 7,980 gallons depending on the model and burns around 1,875 gallons per hour during cruise altitude or 31.25 gallons per minute or 0.5 gallons per second.

The Airbus A320 also burns between 50 and 100 gallons during taxing and another 500 to 550 gallons of fuel during takeoff.

A simple calculation of the cost of fuel from Kuala Lumpur - Bangkok.

2 hour flight fuel burn: 1875 gallons x 2 = 3750 gallons

Taxing and take off fuel burn: 600 gallons

1 barrel of fuel ~42 gallon

1 barrel ~ USD86.4 (as of Aug 4 2023)

Total Fuel Cost : 3850 gallon ~ 103 barrel * USD86.4 = USD8949 (RM 40,268)

#9 Highest cruising altitude

The highest commercial airliner altitude was 60,000 feet by Concorde.

The highest military air-breathing engine airplane was the SR-71 — about 90,000 feet.

The highest airliner flying today reaches 45,000 feet.

The highest business jet flying today reaches 51,000 feet.

#10 Why lights are dimmed

The dimming of cabin lights happens when it is dusk, dark or dawn outside of the aircraft. This is a safety measure to ensure your eyes are adjusted to the gloom enough to see the floor lights leading you to safety along the aisle in the event of an emergency evacuation.

#11 Safest section

The safest section of an aircraft is the back third. The fatality rate of passengers is “only” 32% — whereas mid and front third the fatalitiy rate is 38% - 44%.

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