How many planes fly yearly

Vain

How many planes fly yearly daily and weekly? Was up in cork recently and seen a loads of planes landing and it got me thinking.

wylo

well this isnt quite your answer but just did a search there and found this

WORLDWIDE, IN 2008, THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 93,000 SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL AIRLINE FLIGHTS PER DAY.

So, thats about 34 million flights a year??? And thats only commercial flights

Planes themselves? I dont know


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090405222940AAgDZaF

and check out this simulation of a 24 hour period : http://www.flixxy.com/scheduled-airline-flights-worldwide.htm

Run_to_da_hills

Vain wrote: »

How many planes fly yearly daily and weekly? Was up in cork recently and seen a loads of planes landing and it got me thinking.

Go to Heathrow and watch a plane land / take off about ever two minutes.

Vain

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Go to Heathrow and watch a plane land / take off about ever two minutes.

Was in a huge airport in spain two years back, it was crazy busy with planes taking off. I cant remember what it was call but was huge.

Davidth88

If you really want to see something try o'hare in the US. ( Chicago )

Heathrow has one landing and one departing runway, O' hare has usually 2 of each .

Biro

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Go to Heathrow and watch a plane land / take off about ever two minutes.

I've been in Heathrow watching one take off or land every 30 seconds. Amazing how close they were following each other in. Definitely less than a minute between landings, and a take off on the other runway probably spaced by a little more than a minute, so roughly 30 seconds between something happening!
O'Hare is the busiest airport in the world still isn't it? I think Heathrow has matched it in terms of volume in the past during busy times etc, but in general O'Hare is busier I think.

Danbo!

Davidth88 wrote: »

If you really want to see something try o'hare in the US. ( Chicago )

Heathrow has one landing and one departing runway, O' hare has usually 2 of each .

Yeah landing there is quite an experience. Looking out the window as flew parallel to the runway before banking left to a 180 turn, all I could see was planes landing, and planes taking off in the distance. As we were halfway through our turn I saw 4 heavies behind us.

Something like this, but with more separation (not mine...taken from airliners.net)

Fabio

So is we say 34 million flights a year and how many hull losses are there per year?

I'd say it's pretty small compared to that figure of 34 million!

amen

landed in o'hare friday night summer time and was leaving the airport and I counted 17 planes all lined up to land streching away in the sky

Vain

Fabio wrote: »

So is we say 34 million flights a year and how many hull losses are there per year?

I'd say it's pretty small compared to that figure of 34 million!

What do you mean by hull losses?

Danbo!

A hull loss is when a plane is so badly damaged, that its not worth repairing. Generally means aircraft destroyed as a result of a serious crash.

ViDuchie

Vain wrote: »

What do you mean by hull losses?

I suppose it's a sanitised version of the more descriptive PLANE CRASH!!

pclancy

Probably a term coined by the insurance industry. Also, a hull loss could happen on the ground as in the plane is damaged beyond repair during taxiing or whilst parked or like that Emirates A340 a while back that was crashed into a wall during an engine test on the ground

Statistics like that go to show just how safe aviation is. Of all those millions of flights, only a tiny percentage were involved in indicants and an even tinier percentage of those incidents were life threatening.