RE: RE: RE: Average life span of planes
Allow me to be presumptuous enough to reply for Inves regarding 'CFM'....only because he's yet to offer a response.
CFM is not an acronym...it is reference to a generation of engines produced by a 50/50 partnership between GE Aviation of the USA and the French engine manufacturer Snecma.
The reference CFM actually refers to the combined company and was derived from a combination of the parent companies commercial engines...from GE the 'CF' 6 and from Snecma the 'M' 56....thus the resulting CFM designation.
I note in the post from Inves he refers to the airline he ''worked'' for ( past tense ) and the reference to 757's...gotta' be an ex Skyservice man....or possibly he's already acknowledged that.
As you said Golfdaddy...numbers are just numbers...which several of us have tried for a long time to point out. Best pay close attention to Inves...he has a lot more background behind the numbers than many of you have ever been willing to acknowledge. He has a very keen understanding of how complex this industry is...and just how far some of your less sophisticated fellow posters have gone to oversimplify it.