The world's oldest active Airbus A320s in March

One of these is the ZS-GAL, which as of March 20 stands at .57 years old. This aircraft has been consistently flying between Cape Town and Johannesburg since February.

North America also hosts some of these veteran planes with Air Canada and Delta Airlines maintaining older models in their fleets. Notably,"It is amusing, at least to me, that Delta's two A320 entries are registered N319US and N321US."

Until recently, Jordan Aviation's JY-JAC held the title for the oldest active A320. This plane first took to the skies in January . It was placed into storage in Amman on March , but may yet return to service.

The following list details some of these ancient aircraft:

- ZS-GAL (Lift/Global Aviation): . years

- ZS-GAO (Lift/Global Aviation): . years

- ZS-GAS (Lift/Global Aviation): . years

- C-GPWG (Air Canada): . years

- C-FPWE (Air Canada): . years

- N319US (Delta): . years

- C5-SUA (Su Airlines): . years

- C-FDCA (Air Canada): . years

- LZ-LAE (European Air Charter): . years

- N321US (Delta): . years

"Delta's mainline fleet consists of aircraft with an average age of .2 years as of March " according to ch-aviation data. This average age remains unchanged despite new arrivals and retirements within their fleet. The older average age can be attributed largely to their A s which have an average age of years among other models like the ERs also averaging at years each They retired five A s from July through March leaving remaining including one inherited from Northwest Airlines designated as having seats split between economy Comfort plus and first-class sections