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Hi All

To continue to linger on one of my favourite aviation threads, namely Emirates Boeing 777 registrations, I have been following a fascinating anomaly involving the appearance of B block (ie A6-EBA to A6-EBZ) registrations at Durban's King Shaka International Airport (KSIA).

The following is the complete list of B block registrations that have appeared at Durban between the below dates:

02.10.2023 A6-EBU;
05.11.2023 A6-EBM;
09.11.2023 A6-EBK;
18.11.2023 A6-EBK;
27.11.2023 A6-EBM;
21.12.2023 A6-EBM;
25.12.2023 A6-EBK;
25.02.2024 A6-EBK;
15.04.2024 A6-EBM;
10.05.2024 A6-EBK;
25.06.2024 A6-EBM;
05.08.2024 A6-EBM;
21.08.2024 A6-EBK;
22.09.2024 A6-EBM;
28.09.2024 A6-EBK;
26.10.2024 A6-EBK;
27.10.2024 A6-EBK

Prior to the earliest date above, B block registrations featured frequently to Durban with the full extant range of this block's aircraft appearing as often as three scheduled passenger arrivals per week.
However, from this same date and as can clearly be seen above, only two of the available extant B block range registrations have appeared despite a small number of other B block examples still featuring in the active Emirates B777 fleet.
We also know that these two examples are the oldest two B777s within the extant Emirates fleet.
Clearly, the above bias towards these two registrations cannot be purely coincidence?
This begs the question: why this apparent bias?