Category: airlines and airports...

• the tires of airplanes are filled with nitrogen, which does not burn, rather than air because friction with the ground can make the tires hot enough to catch fire
• airports today are miniature cities
• the apron is the large concrete area at an airport for refueling and parking; the tarmac is the material used to create aprons
• the open space(s) for people to move around in an airport terminal is a concourse(s)
• a pilot traveling as a passenger is deadheading
• Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. (H Youngman)
• In 1934, most American airlines were compelled to reorganize because of new congressional guidelines and the loss of mail contracts.
• Early airports were also major centers of leisure activity, often attracting more visitors than passengers.
• An airline that realizes a journey is more than just a flight
• a boutique flight school that lets you fly a plane over a scenic route at an altitude low enough to pinpoint Grandma's house
• The following dangerous articles are not allowed in any luggage or hand baggage: compressed gas cylinders, flammable material, poisons, radioactive material, oxidizing materials, organic peroxides, firearms, explosives, fireworks, flares, infectious substances, strike-anywhere matches, disposable lighters, acids, alkalis, corrosives.
• The thing everybody stares at the in the airport is the flight information board.
• During peak air travel times, there are about 5,000 airplanes in the sky every hour or 50,000 a day.
• In the US, air traffic is divided into zones/centers, and then portions of about 50 miles in diameter. Each airport within one of those regions has its own airspace with a 5-mile radius.
• At a typical airport, over 100 million people can flow through in one year.
• airport services are classified as groundside or airside
• a typical runway is about two miles long, about three feet thick
• Main runways are usually oriented to line up with prevailing wind patterns so that airplanes can take off into the wind and land with it.
• Charles Lindbergh brought five sandwiches and two canteens of water along on his initial transatlantic flight.

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