Originally Posted by
dackel
I might be wrong on this one, but from my experiences with EK over the last three or four years the strategy is to use new planes on new routes in order to get the business running and use rather old planes for very popular routes.
I got a brand spanking new plane about a month ago on the DXB-BKK route. I'm pretty sure that is not a new route, but, rather a very popular route.