Originally Posted by
goeasy
because they look shiny and smell new..... how do you tell a new car when you're in one?
they always said this one would be retired earlier due to test history etc.
Slap on a new paint job and refresh the interior and your average Pax would never know the difference.
I remember many years ago whilst flying out of SNN to LHR with Aer Lingus , I overhead a conversation between two pax saying they were glad they were not flying on that old thing pointing to the EIN B734 that was looking a little rough around the edges. The two pax in question were flying on an ancient EAL/AB Shannon BAC 1-11, but it did have nice, shiny paintwork
