Average Fleet Age for Selected Airlines
The following links will go to detailed airline fleet age information compiled by AirFleets.net. The AirFleets.net data also breaks down aircraft age by aircraft model within that airline's fleet.
United States and Canada
airTran
Alaska Airlines
American Airlines
American Eagle
Southeast Airlines
Air Canada
Comair (Delta Connection)
Air Wisconsin
Colgan Air
Continental Airlines
Delta Airlines
Expressjet
Frontier Airlines
Horizon Air
Jazz Air
JetBlue Airways
Mesaba
Mesa Airlines
Pinnacle Airlines
PSA (US Airways Express)
Skywest
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
US Airways
Europe
Aeroflot
Air France
Alitalia
British Airways
Finnair
Iberia
KLM
Lufthansa
Ryanair
SAS
THY Turkish Airlines
Latin America
Aeromexico
Avianca
COPA Airlines
GOL Transportes Aereos
TAM
Asia and Pacific
AirAsia
Air China
Air India
Air New Zealand
All Nippon Airways
Asiana Airlines
Cathay Pacific
China Airlines
China Eastern Airlines
China Southern Airlines
EVA Airways
Garuda
Hainan Airlines
Japan Airlines
Jetstar
Korean Air
Malaysia Airlines
Pakistan International Airlines
Qantas
Shanghai Airlines
Shenzhen Airlines
Thai Airways
Vietnam Airlines
Xiamen Airlines
Africa and Middle East
EgyptAir
El Al
Emirates
Etihad
Ethiopian Airlines
Qatar Airways
Royal Air Maroc
Saudi Arabian Airlines
South African Airways
The following are older estimates of average fleet ages for selected US airlines. These are also based on AirFleets.com data, as well as from FAA data. This information was current as of the end of 2007.
| Airline | Average Age | Fleet Size |
|---|---|---|
| Air Wisconsin | 7.0 | 77 |
| AirTran | 4.5 | 138 |
| Alaska | 8.6 | 119 |
| Allegiant Air | 17.8 | 35 |
| Aloha | 17.9 | 25 |
| American | 14.7 | 656 |
| American Eagle | 7.8 | 293 |
| ATA | 14.4 | 29 |
| Atlantic Southeast Airlines | 6.5 | 161 |
| Chautauqua Airlines | 5.9 | 119 |
| Colgan | 16.4 | 44 |
| Comair | 8.5 | 144 |
| Compass | 0.2 | 8 |
| Continental | 10.1 | 367 |
| Delta | 13.8 | 445 |
| ExpressJet | 6.1 | 274 |
| Frontier | 3.8 | 61 |
| Hawaii | 9.7 | 29 |
| Horizon | 5.9 | 72 |
| JetBlue | 3.2 | 137 |
| Mesa | 6.8 | 122 |
| Mesaba | 8.1 | 70 |
| Midwest | 10.6 | 38 |
| Northwest | 18.5 | 366 |
| Piedmont | 17.2 | 48 |
| Pinnacle | 4.5 | 140 |
| PSA | 3.6 | 49 |
| Republic | 2.0 | 53 |
| Shuttle America | 2.5 | 43 |
| Southwest | 9.8 | 523 |
| Spirit | 3.3 | 40 |
| Trans States | 7.5 | 48 |
| United (including Ted) | 12.7 | 455 |
| US Airways | 12.2 | 360 |
| Virgin America | 1.0 | 14 |
Notes and General Disclaimers
The data represents only an estimate of the age and size of that airline's fleet and is not a measure of the risk of flight on that airline.
An airline's fleet is generally made up of different aircraft models and the age of individual aircraft within an airline or even within a single aircraft model within that airline may vary greatly. Most of the information on this page was for larger airlines. To look at data for smaller airlines, you may also want to visit the AirFleets.net site for airlines from around the world as well as the FAA Certificate and Fleet Information for Selected US Carriers page, which has additional data on smaller US carriers.
Please review the AirSafe.com Disclaimer section for insights into interpreting this data. Also, only aircraft models that are in the list of aircraft analyzed by AirFleets.net is included in their computation of fleet age.
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http://airsafe.com/events/airlines/fleetage.htm -- Revised: 19 April 2012
