Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
I don’t think anyone would touch them regardless. 2 years plus parked with little engineering. 5 years left before hitting the scrap heap. The cost to get each ops ready would be $10m+ each, to then flog off for some lowball lease offer. Then the good fun of unexpected engineering surprises in the years following. Just pull it apart.
VPE is owned by the financier now. Considering the reported issues of getting VPE out of the country, I doubt any leasing company, freight airline let alone a passenger airline would be interested in this particular aircraft.
The financier is likely to get more $$ by sending the aircraft to the scrappers.