• Flights longer than 8 hours require 3 pilots (1 captain and 2 first officers) to rotate flying duties. Flights longer than 12 hours require 4 pilots (1 captain and 3 first officers). They usually fly 3-4hour shifts.
•Each airline pilot flying the aircraft, eats a different meal to minimise the risk of all pilots on board being ill.
•On average, pilots fly between 9 and 14 days a month (Indian company pilots fly 24 to 26 days)
•All airlines have an agreement to let each other’s travelling pilots occupy empty seats. If no seats are available, the travelling pilot can also occupy an extra seat in the cockpit that is usually empty.
•The main function of flight attendants are for the safety and security of their passengers, and passenger comfort is only secondary.
•The first female flight attendants in 1930 were required to weigh less than 115 pounds. In addition, they had to be nurses and unmarried.
•Flight attendants must not have any tattoos visible when a uniform is worn. These requirements are designed to give the airlines a positive representation.
•The normal ratio of Flight Attendants to passenger seats is one Flight Attendant for every 50 passenger seats.
•The height requirement for Flight Attendant is for safety reasons, making sure that all flight attendants can reach overhead safety equipment.
•The normal ratio of Lavatories to passengers is approximately one lavatory for every 50 passengers.
•An air traveller can lose approximately 1.5 litres of water in the body during a three-hour flight.
•The reason why the lights are turned out during take-off and landing–Is for your eyes to adjust to lower levels of light. If there’s an accident and they have to activate the emergency slides, studies have shown that you will be able to see better and therefore be able to evacuate more quickly and safely.
•The World’s largest Airline in terms of Fleet Size is Delta Airlines United States) with 744 aircraft and 121 aircraft on order as of March 2011.
•The largest passenger plane is the Airbus 380 – nearly 240 feet long, almost 80 feet high, and has a wingspan of more than 260 feet. The double-Decker plane has a standard seating capacity of 555 passengers.
•The world’s busiest airport in terms of passenger volume or the number of take-offs and landing s, is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, United States – with more than 88 million passengers shuffled through the Atlanta airport in 2009, with another 20 million in the first three months of 2010, and with aircraft take-off and landings approximately every 37 seconds. •The Internet/On-Line check-in was first used by Alaskan Airlines in 1999.
•The airport with the longest runway in the world is Qamdo Bangda Airport in the Peoples Republic of China with 5.50 kilometres in length (as of 2011).
•American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
•In 2009, Southwest served 632 million cans of soda, juices, and water; 14.3 million alcoholic beverages; 14 million bags of pretzels; 90 million bags of peanuts; 17.7 million Select-A-Snacks; and 33.5 million other snacks.
•Singapore Airlines spends about $700 million on food every year and $16 million on wine alone. First class passengers consume 20,000 bottles of alcohol every month and Singapore Airlines is the second largest buyer of Dom Perignon champagne in the world.
•Cathay Pacific carries rice cookers, toasters, cappuccino makers and skillets on board their air planes.
•KLM is the worlds’ oldest airline established in 1919.
•QANTAS – Australia’s national airline, originally stood for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service. It is the second world’s oldest airline established in 1920, and still has the world’s best safety record with no fatal crashes as of 2011
•Virgin Atlantic lists catering as their third biggest expense, after fuel and maintenance.
•American Airlines spent about $425 million on food for domestic passengers in 2001.
•In one year, British Airways passengers consume: 40.5 tons of chicken * 6 tons of caviar * 22 tons of smoked salmon * 557,507 boxes of chocolate * 90 thousand cases (9 litre cases) of sparkling wine.
•Abu Dhabi Airport Services once did a complete turn-around for a Boeing 777 in under 40 minutes, as opposed to a normal minimum of one hour. They unloaded passengers, cargo, mail, cleaned the aircraft, and loaded outbound passengers, cargo and mail in that short time.
•In 2001, Dubai Duty Free sold 1,570,214 cartons of cigarettes, 2,003,151 bottles of liquor, 2,909 kilo grams of gold, 101,824 watches, 690,502 bottles of perfume, 52,119 mobile phones.
•In-flight catering is an $18 billion worldwide industry employing up to 200,000 people.
*Delta Airline was the first to introduce air bridge, which saved travellers lengthy walk from the plane to the terminal.
Skin or blood tests, when combined with a doctor’s examination and your medical history, can help determine if you’re truly allergic to something you inhaled, touched, or ate. But if you don’t have symptoms or a medical evaluation that points to an allergy, you should think twice about testing….
It’s worth getting a bone-density test if you’re older or have other risk factors for weak bones, because without it the first sign of osteoporosis is usually a broken bone. But if you’re not at higher risk, you should think twice about the test. ..
If you’re scheduled for surgery, a pre-operative chest X-ray can sometimes help make it safer by identifying medical problems that might make it a good idea to delay or even cancel the procedure. But if you don’t have signs or symptoms of heart or lung disease, you should think twice about having the X-ray…..
People with chronic kidney disease usually have other health problems too, such as diabetes or high blood pressure. And it can cause anemia, bone disease, heart disease and other health problems. So proper care can be complicated and can often include seeing several specialists, for many years. Even when the disease is treated carefully it can get worse, and may lead to the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant.
But if you or a family member are on that path, choosing among the tests and treatments along the way won’t always be straightforward. Some of the decisions will be challenging: You might not even want or need some of the tests, treatments or procedures you may be offered.
Below, we describe four important examples where you, your family, and your doctor should carefully discuss the benefits and risks of treatment….
This calls for a detailed discussion with your Doctor.
Preferable that you have a family Doctor whom you know well and he knows you and your family.
Corporate and Super Specialty Hospitals are in the racket of making money, exploiting your so called “‘ Health Consciousness’an euphemism promoted by the Health Care industry for ‘Fear’!
Dozens of types of tests and treatments are too often recommended by doctors when patients don’t need them, according to a warning issued Thursday by a coalition of leading medical groups in the United States.
This unnecessary care wastes time and money and sometimes causes harm to patients, according to the organizations that represent more than 350,000 doctors, the Associated Press reported.
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A woman was killed by consuming Coca Cola in New Zealand which prompted the Coroner who performed the autopsy to advise Coca Cola to put health warnings on its caffeinatedproducts!
It has become a fashion to drink and brag ‘ I drink Coca Cola’ has become a fashion!
Beware.
Story:
Coca-Cola
A New Zealand woman’s 2.2 gallon a day Coca-Cola habit was a major factor in her death, a coroner found Tuesday, urging the soft drink giant to put health warnings on its caffeinated products.
Natasha Harris, a 30-year-old mother of eight from Invercargill in southern New Zealand, drank huge amounts of the fizzy beverage for years before her death in February 2010, coroner David Crerar found.
He said Harris suffered from a number of health conditions which could be linked to the “extreme” amounts of Coke she downed, playing a role in the cardiac arrhythmia that finally killed her.
“I find that when all the available evidence is considered, were it not for the consumption of very large quantities of Coke by Natasha Harris, it is unlikely that she would have died when she died and how she died,” he found.
He added that Harris’s Coke habit “was a substantial factor that contributed to the development of the metabolic imbalances which gave rise to the arrhythmia.
A pathologist found Harris, who did not drink alcohol, had an enlarged liver due to fatty deposits caused by excessive sugar consumption and low potassium levels in her blood, which can affect cardiac function.
Her family said she complained of a “racing heart” before her death and they considered her addicted to Coke, which she drank throughout her waking hours.
“(She would) go crazy if she ran out… she would get the shakes, withdrawal symptoms, be angry, on edge and snappy,” her mother-in-law Vivien Hodgkinson told the inquest into her death last year.
Harris’s family told the inquest she had all her teeth removed after they went rotten due to excessive soft drink consumption and at least one of her children was born with no enamel on its teeth.
Crerar said the family had not considered her Coke habit dangerous because the drink did not carry any health warnings.
He recommended “that Coca-Cola give consideration to the inclusion of advice as to quantity of caffeine on labels (in) its products and… adding appropriate warnings related to the dangers of consuming excessive quantities of the products”.
He also said authorities should examine whether health warnings were needed and consider lowering the maximum amount of caffeine allowed in carbonated beverages.
Be careful !!!! At the airport or close to any Customs checkpoint, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for elderly person or pregnant women. You could be arrested for cocaine or illegal drugs possession!
Watch this attached video by the US Customs….. you will understand how smart cocaine dealers are nowadays” -Youtube
This warning has come from an officer working at the airport.
At the airport never help anybody to hold, even for a short time, his or her water bottle or anything.
If you happen to buy a water bottle at the airport, please check the bottle. BEWARE of fake water bottles.
At the airport or close to any customs service, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for an elderly person or a pregnant women. Tell them to put the bottle on the floor.
You could be arrested for cocaine or any illegal drugs possession. In Singapore, that means death penalty!
Watch this attached video by the US Customs. (Cocaine dealers are very smart ).
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