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https://www.thestreet.com/story/128...ors-psa-the-model-for-southwest-airlines.html
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a319-1275.htm
I mean it obviously isn't a plane that they just haven't bothered painting since 1987. Looks like it was delivered in 2000 and repainted in the PSA livery in 2015. That does make an older plane, but not outrageously so. In general, though, the AA Airbus fleet is pretty awful - the legacy AA ones are crammed to the rafters and the legacy US Airways ones are beat to hell / offer no lower back support. I will take a MD88 any day, as long as I'm not in one of the last ten rows anyhow. Not many of those left though, sadly.
The American fleet is quite a bit younger than those of both Delta and United.
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/American Airlines.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Delta Air Lines.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/United Airlines.htm
And, really it doesn't matter. I don't think anyone who's very knowledgeable about it, would contest the notion that Delta is the most operationally strong of the bunch yet have the oldest fleet of the lot and aren't really looking to change that (they buy a lot of old planes, including MD90s and 717s that haven't been in production for 15+ years).
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a319-1275.htm
I mean it obviously isn't a plane that they just haven't bothered painting since 1987. Looks like it was delivered in 2000 and repainted in the PSA livery in 2015. That does make an older plane, but not outrageously so. In general, though, the AA Airbus fleet is pretty awful - the legacy AA ones are crammed to the rafters and the legacy US Airways ones are beat to hell / offer no lower back support. I will take a MD88 any day, as long as I'm not in one of the last ten rows anyhow. Not many of those left though, sadly.
The American fleet is quite a bit younger than those of both Delta and United.
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/American Airlines.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Delta Air Lines.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/United Airlines.htm
And, really it doesn't matter. I don't think anyone who's very knowledgeable about it, would contest the notion that Delta is the most operationally strong of the bunch yet have the oldest fleet of the lot and aren't really looking to change that (they buy a lot of old planes, including MD90s and 717s that haven't been in production for 15+ years).