Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday's Fun Facts

The facts are all about airports today. Have a great weekend!

  • In 2008, 87 percent of airline passengers made a phone call within 5 minutes of disembarking from the plane. Among those who did not make a phone call, 72 percent sent an SMS text message.
  • The Munich airport has the highest ratio of ATMs to departing passengers of any similarly sized airport in the world.
  • Dallas-Fort Worth airport serves 2.87 percent more departing passengers than arriving passengers, which is the largest differential of any airport in the world.
  • Codes for Canadian airports start with 'Z' because the man who desgnated them was named Zachary Zebedevelamov and, he said, he wanted to 'leave his mark on Canada."
  • From 1950 to 1958 three airlines had daily scheduled service between Idlewild (now JFK) Airport and Newark Airport.

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