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Travel statistics: 8-14 October 2007

(17 October 2007)



Geneva is the number one ski destination according to Cheapflights.co.uk (w/e 14 Oct 2007)Top 10 ski destinations 

  1. Geneva
  2. Vancouver
  3. Zurich
  4. Calgary
  5. Denver
  6. Toulouse
  7. Innsbruck
  8. Salzburg
  9. Turin
  10. Grenoble

Source:  Cheapflights.co.uk searches

 

Farnsworth House in Pennsylvania is reputed to be the spookiest hotel in the USTop 10 spookiest hotels in the US

  1. Farnsworth House, Pennsylvania
  2. St. James Hotel, New Mexico
  3. Menger Hotel, Texas
  4. Hotel Queen Mary, California
  5. The Hawthorne Hotel, Massachusetts
  6. The Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana
  7. Stanley Hotel, Colorado
  8. Silver Queen Hotel, Nevada
  9. Gadsden Hotel, Arizona
  10. Inn at 835, Illinois

Source: TripAdvisor

 

Egypt is the number one destination on Gazetteers.com w/e 14 Oct 2007.Top 10 destinations

  1. Egypt 
  2. Turkey  
  3. Cyprus 
  4. Mexico  
  5. Dominican Republic 
  6. Tunisia  
  7. Cuba 
  8. Belgium 
  9. Thailand 
  10. Maldives

Source: Gazetteers.com  

 

Top 20 travel search terms

1 Ryanair 11 Cheap flights
2 EasyJet 12 AA
3 Multimap 13 First Choice
4 AA route planner 14 Travel lodge
5 Train times 15 Maps
6 Google Earth 16 British Airways
7 Thomas Cook 17 Holidays
8 Expedia 18 Route Planner
9 AA route finder 19 Thomson
10 National Rail 20 Thomson Holidays

Source: Hitwise for week ending October 13

 

Airbus A380 in statistics

The A380 weighs in at 747560 tonnes

  • 471 - the number of seats on the first A380 due to enter service with Singapore Airlines next week
  • 80 metres - the aircraft's wing span, 15 metres more than the Boeing
  • 747560 tonnes - the A380's weight
  • 75 grammes - the average amount of C02 the A380 will emit per passenger per kilometre
  • 189 - number of A380s on order to date


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