Maybenaut wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:26 pm
Even tho he can’t move the plane, he has to pay to park it there, no?
Oh he's paying to park it there. At a GA Airport around here, its about $65 a month to park a Cessna 172 and that stipulates the plane has to have a current annual and must be flown every three months to keep the place from filling up with unflyable junk.
From an Australian article
Aeroplanes can be stored for a long time at these locations. Experts say airlines would typically incur a monthly cost of around $5,000 (£3,882) to maintain the aircraft in a "long-term storage programme".
"Some aircraft are stored for a long period before finding a new lessee, some are stored and then used for parts, some are scrapped," Ian Petchenik from flight tracking website FlightRadar24, told me.
Which is talking about parking them at an airpark in the middle of a desert in Australia. To be on the tarmac at a functioning airport in New York you at the very least ought to double that and I wouldn't be surprised if its $25k a month.
The plane has sat so long its probably a maintenance nightmare and I'm not sure it'll ever be fit to fly again. Its not even worth much for parts, because its a very old variant of the 757 that major airlines no longer fly. Its a 757-200 of which according to AOPA there are still 500+ still flying, in such upscale locations as Kazakhstan, Latvia, and the Republic of Congo. There are 177 of them registered to American Airlines that are still flyable but have been idled since last year and are being replaced by newer planes as demand picks back up. In short, the thing is gonna be way to expensive for him to overhaul might end up being scrapped.
look who's back from downunder 
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