Originally Posted by
Trinity 09L
(but would you be willing to forfeit half your salary for the next five years for being able to do so)
A good treasury accountant would be able to make a similar sum on the rise & fall of the $, and/or shopping around for the lowest fuel, rather than just penalising engineers salary, whose job it is to keep the aircraft flying.
Kinda missing the point there. Lets say that all factors considered, repairing the aircraft costs 1 million more than pulling one out of storage and retuning to service, and lets say that you are correct that the bean counters could make that same sum by shopping for chap fuel or some other means.
Which makes more sense:
Repairing the airplane at an overall cost of 1 million (compared to scrapping it) , and the doing whatever financial magic that that recoups that million dollars for a net gain of 0
Or:
Scrapping that airplane and pulling one out of storage, saving a million dollars, plus doing that financial magic which gains a million dollars, for a net gain of 2 million dollars.
At the end of the day, which is better, having 2 million dollars or having zero?