African airline ranks high in the latest list of carriers with the youngest airliner fleets

An African airline has the fifth youngest fleet of aircraft in the world, aviation database and news company ch-aviation has reported, in its “World’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet 2023” award report, released on Tuesday. The report uses data that was valid on December 31 last year. Any operators with fewer than five aircraft were excluded from the survey. VIP-configured aircraft were also excluded from the survey.  The African carrier is Uganda Airlines, whose airliners have an average age of 3.01 years. The airline with the youngest fleet in the world, and so the winner of ch-aviation’s World’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet Award 2023, is Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines, with an average aircraft age of just 1.22 years. The other three airlines in the top five are Saudi Arabian carrier flyadeal (second, with an average aircraft age of 2.56 years), Canada’s Lynx Air (third, 2.9 years), and Chile’s SKY Airline (fourth, 2.94 years).