The USD$40,000 saving
In 1987 American Airlines saved USD40,000 by removing one olive from each salad served in first class.
The obese SuperJumbo
The wing-span of the A380 is longer than the aircraft itself. Wingspan is 80 metres and the length 72.7 metres.
The USD700 million foodbill
BC - Singapore Airlines spent approximately USD700 million on food every year and USD16 million on wine
1.5 litres of water
Travelling by air can shed up to 1.5 litres of water from the body during an average three-hour flight.
A short flight
The Boeing 747 wingspan is longer than the Wright Brothers first flight of 120ft.
The world's tallest man
The winglets on an Airbus A330-200 are the same height as the world's tallest man.
Digital transformation
BC - By American Airlines switching a pilots paper manuals to iPad they will save over USD1 million in fuel.
Black boxes aren't actually black
The black box, also known as the Flight Data Recorder, is actually painted bright orange. The heat-resistant paint used to coat the boxes' exteriors comes in a highlighter-orange hue, which also happens to make them easier to find in case of an accident.
The dirtiest place on the plane isn't the bathroom
As it so happens, the filthiest place on a plane is that tray table you're eating your meal off. According to a study conducted by TravelMath, tray tables hosted 2,155 colony-forming bacterial units (CFU) per square inch. In comparison, the button to flush the toilet had just 265 CFU in the same amount of space.
A hijacker once relinquished control of a flight for beer
In 1985, an ex-convict who hijacked a Norwegian Boeing 737 armed with a pistol decided to abandon his plan so long as the police were willing to give him one thing: beer. In the end, the plane landed safely at Fornebu Airport in Oslo, none of the 115 passengers on board were harmed, and the hijacker was arrested.