Aircraft fleet average age.

Not sure if this has been posted here before or not ?

Anyone guess which of the main UK airlines flying in and out of Spain has the oldest fleet ?

I'd love to say it was Ryanair, but they have the youngest at 2.8 years.

Next in order is Easy Jet 3.4 years, BA 11.5 years, Monarch 11.7 years, BMI Baby 13.8 years and the winner is Jet2 on 21.6 years.

Don't know

but the last one I went on had an outside toilet

 Is there a maximum age limit? With the amount of use these planes get one would hope there is a point at which they are scrapped!

There is no age limit but the airframe has a limited amount of flying hours. Everything on aircraft is done by flying hours, all the maintenance checks, etc. There will come a time when it will need a complete renovation (look at the Vulcan for example) and it is no longer cost effective, at which time it will probably go to the aircraft graveyard in Arizona for recycling!

Mark

Most of the Jet 2 aircraft belonged to Ansett of Australia, before they went bust.

These aircraft were overhauled completely before joining Jet 2 fleet.

So these aircraft are better than new ones, " ever bought a new car that doesnt work correctly".

C

 Hello and Aer Lingus and irish Airline who have 2 UK bases Belfast and Gatwick with Dublin, Cork, Shannon etc is average at 6 years, flew from Malaga to Cork today on St Colman an A320 they acuired last year and painted it in the old livery, such a beauitful aircraft to fly on and it looks amazing :) 

Aer Lingus fly the biggest bird into Malaga from Dublin in the Summer months an A330.

Monarch's average aircraft age is somewhat misleading, as they have quite a few VERY old (20-25 year) aircraft, and some newer ones, whereas Ryanair and Easyjet etc. tend to have fleets of more or less the same generation. Monarch are one of the very few passenger airlines in Europe to still have A300s and B757s in service. Monarch also wet lease and charter a aircraft from Eastern europe to fill on for certain flights. This ins't that un-usual but Monarch do it more than most, and do it for much shorter charters, not bothering to use their own cabin crew.

I think the move to running sheduled services has overstretched them. Charter airlines can get away with a much smaller fleet, and have a much simpler revenue pattern, and I get hte impression MOnarch didn't fully apprefciate just how different a sheduled operation is, paticularly on the highly competetive routes (i.e. UK - Mediterranean) where they operate.

Llegar,

To.the.best.of.my.knowledge.Monarch.have.suspended.the.use.of.Aurela.airlines.following.the.landing.on.the.21st.September.-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-19676990

so.those.two.old.planes.should.be.out.of.service.

(Apologies.for.my.odd.text.-.my.space.bar.is.broken!)

quote... llegaralasestrellas... I think the move to running sheduled services has overstretched them.

Monarch have been successfully running scheduled services since 2005; indeed very little of their work these days is charter. It was  the availability of Monarch's scheduled services that enabled a great many of us to move to inland Andalucia via Granada airport. If it hadnt been for a certain greedy, blackmailing other airline they would still be operating into GRX.

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As.I.understand.it,.what.has.overstretched.them.has.been.picking.up.the.routes.BMIbaby.vacated...

It is a shame about BMI  Baby. They have left a pretty big hole at Birmingham. Their aircraft weren't exactly spritely (everything I felt on with them seemed to be long in the tooth old-model 737s - not sure where they got them from) but they had a decent network from BHX, both domestic and EU.