Company policy??
Any business needs to decide on its objectives and how it will fulfill them. It has to make choices and it will decide a set of policies to follow in order to help the decision-making process so that everybody knows which way to go.
Ryanair's objectives and related policies are not those of BA.
Ryanair has chosen not to do a whole raft of things to be able to provide lower fares. Ryanair provides no in-flight food and only sandwiches and warm beer. BA seems to have a policy of having only one main i-f food supplier who can bring its whole operation to a grinding halt!
On a more serious note, some airlines have a policy of taking every modification and update provided by the manufacturer and fitting it to the existing aircraft - others do not.
If you buy a s/h jumbo from BA built ten years ago, you will get a plane with all the latest equipment with the airframe of a plane 10 years old. If you buy a ten year old jumbo from a black african airline, that is what you will get - a plane with everything 10 years old. Please do not blame the black-bean-counters.
Which aircraft will be safer?
Hope that helps.
Last edited by LX-GB1; 1st September 2005 at 10:41.