Mizter T wrote:

On 28/09/2016 08:45, Neil Williams wrote:

On 2016-09-28 06:07:44 +0000, Roland Perry said:

I'm no sure which part of their costs you think were significantly
higher - they had one of the oldest fleets in the air, and the other
two one of the newest. That must impact the cost.

The easyJet and Ryanair argument is that good deals on new planes are
actually cheaper to operate overall - highly reliable, for example.

It's interesting that another low cost airline, Jet2, does it the other
way round, having a fleet of older planes.

Jet2 is the current name for an old (1983) charter and freight operator,
Channel Express. Its older planes were bought second-hand, but it's now
moving to a modern low cost model, with an order for 30 new 738s last year.