Airline Trivia

1. What is the oldest airline still operating under its original name?

a. Deutsche Lufthansa b. KLM c. Northwest Airlines d. Qantas

2. In 1987, American Airlines famously saved $40,000 by doing the following: a. They removed 1 olive from each salad served in first class. b. They made their pilots pay for their own dry cleaning. c. They stopped serving chocolate bars to passengers in coach. d. They stopped turning the AC on before takeoff. a. Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, to Sydney, Australia b. Johannesburg, South Africa, to Atlanta, Georgia c. Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, to Hong Kong, China d. Doha, Qatar, to Auckland, New Zealand a. 700,000 b. 1.2 million c. 2 million d. 7 million a. 370-410 MPH b. 546–575 MPH c. 670-700 MPH d. 801- 830 MPH a. 490 b. 638 c. 853 d. 985 a. American Airlines b. Lufthansa Airlines c. Qatar Airways d. Air France a. Airplanes only carry enough blankets for 37% of passengers. b. They are sometimes used as towels when the crew runs out of towels on long flights. c. Their size is purposely small so that they don’t cover passengers’ toes because if they did cover toes, that would encourage passengers to take off their shoes and smell up the plane. d. They are only cleaned every 5 to 30 days.

3. What is the longest non-stop flight in the world?

4. Around how many people fly per day in the U.S.?

5. What is the typical cruising air speed for long-distance commercial passenger flights?

6. How many people can an Airbus A380 carry officially?

7. Which airline is the world’s largest (by fleet size and revenue)?

8. What did a 2007 investigation by The Wall Street Journal reveal about airline blankets?

Answers

1. B- KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) has been in existence since 1919. Qantas is the world’s second oldest airline, established in 1920.

2. A

3. D- Qatar’s flight 921 is the longest flight in the world, traveling 9,032 miles. On average, it takes an average of 16 hours and 10 minutes for this whopper of a flight.

4. C

5. B

6. C

7. A- American Airlines’ average yearly revenue is $40 billion. The five largest airlines in the world, by fleet size, are 1) American Airlines; 2) Delta Air Lines; 3) United Airways; 4) Southwest Airlines; 5) FedEx Express (in that order)

8. D (Sorry, did I just kill your inflight chill?)

Wisdom key:

7-8 correct: You are a real frequent flier…enjoy the blanket!

3-6 correct: Not bad, you are coach class…middle seat!

0-2 correct: You have airplane amnesia…maybe it was that 16-hourplus flight that you took from Qatar to New Zealand, while stuck in the middle seat between Bobuwee and Mustafa!