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 don't think this is true. The MAN-DXB route has been around for about 15 years, and this has recently been upgraded to a 77W. A lot of the new routes tend to start with an A330, and get upgraded if the route is successful.
Cheers,
Rick