Fast facts about the first Liege-Tokyo flight from Tuesday evening.
18 hours 15 minutes – flight time Liege to Tokyo, with a touchdown in Dubai
Aircraft detail: Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777-F (flight numbers EK9388 LGG-DXB, EK9442 DXB-HND)
19 flying stables on-board
Dimensions of the flying stables: 317cms long, 244cms wide, 233cms high
14-17° Celsius – on-board temperature
36 Dressage horses – teams from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Portugal and host nation Japan, and individual horses from Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Morocco.
22,700kgs +/- total weight of horses flying from Liege
630kg is the average weight of a Dressage horse
13,500kgs of horse equipment
12,000 kgs of feed (not including in-flight meals & snacks)
40 litres of water per horse
Total transport trivia.
247 - total number of horses travelling to Tokyo for the Olympic Games
78 – total number of horses travelling to Tokyo for the Paralympic Games
630kg – average weight of a Dressage horse; 515kg – average weight of an Eventing horse; 610kg – average weight of a Jumping horse
14 – total number of horse flights for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
5 – total number of horse flights for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
100,000kgs - total weight of the horse equipment (including saddles, bridles, boots, bandages, rugs, lungeing equipment, headcollars, grooming kits, shoes & studs, wheelbarrows & pitch forks)
60,000kgs – total feed weight (feed/haylage) 185 – total number of truck journeys between Haneda airport and the equestrian park at Baji Koen