The European Union's statistical office Eurostat has published a report showing that Croatia has the block's oldest commercial fleet, with 61% of all registered aircraft in the country aged over twenty. It is followed closely by Sweden (60%), Bulgaria and Lithuania (55%), as well as Slovakia (52%). Aircraft aged twenty years or over also make up more than a third of the fleet in Estonia (43%), Romania (39%) and Denmark (37%). At the opposite end of the scale, less than 10% of the aircraft fleet is aged twenty years or over in Finland (2%), Luxembourg (6%) and Ireland (7%). Conversely, a significant share of the fleet is made up of recent aircraft (aged less than five years) in Hungary (44%), Malta (42%) and Luxembourg (31%), ahead of Poland (26%), Germany and Ireland (both 25%), the Netherlands (23%), the United Kingdom (22%) and Spain (21%). In contrast, operators in Croatia have no aircraft less than five years old, and in Lithuania (4%), Sweden (6%), Romania (7%), Greece and Latvia (both 8%) fewer than 10% of the fleet is made up of aircraft less than five years old. The United Kingdom is the leading aircraft operator in the EU, running more than 1 250 aircraft.

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