Originally Posted by
zondaracer
It’s also number of cycles. Those long haul planes do many less cycles in the same time period due to the nature of the flying.
Yeah that is true but still look at DL's MDs. Same type of flying we do. Heck even some of their 75s doing ATL-JAX/MCO all day. I know their maintenance is obviously better but I still wouldn't call our planes old regardless. It's even sillier that parking older ones was even brought up.