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Originally Posted by 3.0L
My son flies the A319 and A320 for a major airline and it's actually a very good airplane: good in this case because it is well maintained.
Lesson: Cheap airlines = minimal maintenance.
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The second A319 appeared at least to my untrained eyes to have many more flight hours on it, and I can only imagine the number of cabin pressurization cycles when they were flying it on 6-8 short legs per day.
Plus, I'm not sure that one or both planes wasn't a seasonal loan/lease from an intertwined South American airline who also flies A319's, since the route that I was flying is only offered May-October. The emergency procedures cards were generic Airbus, with no airline branding. Don't know if that is common these days, but I always remember branded cards in the olden days.
No big deal, since my next flight will be on a Boom Overture SST...if I live that long.....