Captain Airclues wrote: "as we are past the retirement bulge"
Not according to the BA presentation at the recent Balpa EOC! According to BA they are in the middle of the 'retirement bulge' and it will not tail off till after 2004.
I was chatting to a soon to be retired BA 747 Captain who commented that the official BA figures were not correct and an underestimate.
However, the remainder of Airclues post rings true.