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Steamboat Grand, The West,
Raintree and, formerly, The Allen House
I assumed that airlines would use the same logic as we would when driving cross country. We take the newer Toyota rather than our 2005 Buick- which is in good condition but more likely to have an issue. Silly me.
I did see a line in an article from Loyalty Lobby that I liked referring to the replacement plane United used- “Again one of the oldest planes in UA’s fleet. One has to admire the guts of United’s flight planners.”
Boeing & Regulators Recommend Grounding Of B777 Jets With PW4000 Engines Following United Incident
Old Boeing 777 models with PW4000 engines grounded until further notice.loyaltylobby.com
With proper maintenance and inspections, an aircraft and engines could stay in service safely indefinitely. What causes them to be retired is it becomes uneconomical to continue to make more extensive repairs and more efficient designs becoming available. There are DC-3’s flying today built in the 1940’s. In fact, I own and fly a plane built in 1946 and it will likely outlast me. If I wanted a new one that offered not much more, it would have cost me about 10 times as much.
Cheers
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