Have you ever wondered, why there are so many well maintained 20+ year old aircraft offered with a good D or C check dirtcheap by AI Brokers?
- In some cases, its cheaper to lease one of those planes for 11 months rather then going through a C check for your own plane! Dump your own, get the lease for a year or so and when it is about to need a new C check, dump the plane and lease another one. The lease for a year is much less than the C check costs. Just fascinating how much AI invest in C/D checks of aircraft.
- Or maybe just check in GW2 the production list of 747-400s: like the last 100 planes of the series were purchased by AI... most have not even seen an hour of flying time.
- And why do they always buy the baseline model? The resale value of a plane is highest with the highest MTOW, the other planes are useless on the market really.
Now I would really like to see a special feature implemented: F
inancial accounting of the plane sales/leases/purchases/checks the AI Brokers are doing! What are they spending on purchases and C/D. How much they earn from leases and sales. With that, maybe in the long-run, the AI could be a bit improved (after all, the "I" does not stand for idiot

)!