Aircraft age related topics, including average fleet age
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Why some planes are scrapped way sooner than others?
I am browsing the planespotters.net database, and I see plenty of planes in their twenties. Delta, for example, has 117 MD-88 with an average age of 25 years.
While other planes are scrapped with no apparent reason when they are not even 10 years…
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