Fleet
US Airways has a fleet average age of 12.8 years as of December 2011.
By the end of 2012, US Airways will maintain nearly an all-Airbus fleet, with the exception of some Boeing jets and small fleet of Embraer jets. The post-merger US Airways continues to operate the largest fleet of Airbus aircraft in the world.
Subsidiaries PSA and Piedmont exclusively fly Bombardier CRJ and de Havilland Dash 8 (DHC-8) line of aircraft.
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Famous quotes containing the word fleet:
“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy-gifts fading away.”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)