As of September 2023, with an average age of 16.3 years, United has the oldest fleet of all major US airlines.
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The Blériot XI first flew on January 23rd, 1909. It went on to perform a pioneering flight across the English Channel later that year. Despite the type first hitting the air 114 years ago, the aircraft is still airworthy today.
British AirwaysSince 1985, BA has never had a fatal accident, the closest call coming in 2008, when First Officer John Coward earned his place in the aviation Hall of Fame by landing a plane without any power. Read the full story here. BA ranks among the world's top 20 safest airlines according to AirlineRatings.
We operate one of the youngest fleets in the industry with 318 Airbus A320 family aircraft. We've recently welcomed the new generation Airbus A320neo to the fleet and will have 100 of these in service by the end of 2022.
Number of passengers uplifted by United Kingdom airlines 2022. EasyJet is the largest airline based in the United Kingdom by annual passenger numbers. In 2022, the low-cost carrier transported over 33 million passengers.
Global aircraft fleet - average age of retirement 2005-2019In 2019, the average age of passenger jets removed from the global commercial fleet was around 22.8 years.
And up to 40 per cent of people experience some form of fear in the air. Plenty of passengers resort to rituals to ease this phobia such as lucky seat numbers, touching the outside of the plane or wearing specific clothing items. To avoid superstitious seat swaps, many airlines skip rows 13 and 17.
KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, March 27, 1977This crash remains the deadliest ever, claiming the lives of 583 people when two 747s collided on a foggy runway on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
The Tenerife Airport Disaster (1977)The deadliest accident in aviation history, where around 583 passengers on board were killed. The incident took place after the plane captain, mistakenly believing that he had been cleared for takeoff, went ahead.