Originally Posted by
BahrainLad
If you exclude the Gulf carriers, flying "antique material" is common to all airlines.
Really? LAN Airlines' oldest plane is the A340. Ten years old and getting retired next year. Avianca has had a complete fleet replacement (save for the couple of Fokker 50s, Philippine Airlines, brand new fleet.
I think there are many many airlines that are not flying what you call antique material.
I know there is economic mileage in both the "old" and "new" models, I am just disagreeing with your claim.