How about rickety old planes that make all sorts of dodgy noises on take off? That's my experience of one of the cheap airlines in particular. Is there any information out there to show the average age of their planes? if they are different then that's a major factor that should be in the comparison.
Heh, pretty much every 737 I've been in, regardless of carrier, feels and sounds rickety on takeoff. I just remind myself that the family of plane I'm in has had only ~200 accidents in approximately ~300 million hours of flight.
I don't know about the others, but Ryanair has the youngest aircraft fleet in the world. I'm guessing the others will have fairly new planes too because they are cheaper to run.
And you get a very nice discount if you go to Boeing when the rest of the industry is in a downturn an order 500 737s.
Even better if like Ryan you do it while also talking about buying Airbuses instead.
You mean Northwest Airlines in the USA, which has the oldest fleet of any carrier? They are a "regular" airline. In a study a few years back their fleet had an average age of 18.1 years.
