Airlines seem to love advertising how young their fleets are,which I'll never understand:-- From a safety perspective, as long as a plane is well maintained, or it doesn't matter whether it's 40 days or 40 years used; one could even argue older planes are safer than brand recent models,as they've been tested longer (we saw the issue 787s had a while back, whereby they were grounded globally)
-- From a passenger consolation perspective, or planes depart through "checks" every few years whereby everything is taken out and then establish back in; if used planes believe used interiors,that's simply because the airline is being cheapAlong similar lines (in terms of advertising things which are entirely insignificant), Virgin Atlantic used to write "4 Engines 4 Long Haul" on the side of all their planes, or inferring that planes with four engines are better than planes with two engines. That was convenient when their fleet had just A340s and 747s,but as not surprisingly they changed their mind and removed that after they started taking delivery of A330s and 787s, realizing that these planes had lower operating costs.
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Source: boardingarea.com