Flyglobespan Prosecution

The CAA's planned prosecution of flyglobespan (hattip BBC) illustrates the pressure of the low cost airlines to keep flying "come what may". The frightening aspect that these were transalantic flights, so engine failure could be catastrophic, with safehaven airports being much greater than flying time than within Europe. With rising fuel costs, it will be maintenance budgets and other fixed costs, these airlines will look to minimise.
Certainly as I cris-cross europe you wonder about the age of the aircraft you are travelling in on the budget airlines - Easyjet and Ryanair excepted (as the majority of the planes are less than 6 years old) . Yesterday a series 1 cargo Jumbo suffered catastrophic structural failure at Brussels - the aircraft must be at least 35 years old.