Parked leased aircraft question

[Vectis]

If I park a leased aircraft and wait for the lease to expire to hand it back. Do I still have to do A/B/C/D maintenance checks on it, before it goes back to it's owner?

Many thanks.

[groundbum2]

by park I'm assuming long term storage. The lease agreement probably has a minimum condition of 70%. But a planes condition does not deteriorate in storage, so I'm going to say no. If you leased the plane from a real player, they may be slightly miffed at getting a plane back that needs a lot of money spent, and they may not help you again. But I'm sure the AI brokers don't have feelings. yet.

;-) Simon

[Vectis]

Okay, I should probably make that C/D as A/B are due every week and I do them.
I would not have any intention of hanging onto a leased aircraft and doing D checks on it, I think that would be fairly normal to want to not lease aircraft through D checks?
The info I can find, says that if you take something out of parking to use again, you would need to do all checks. ABCD.
So my question really is, if I ensured A B were done, perhaps C before I stored it. When I handed it back to the owner, would that D check still need doing to hand it back, even if it was not due? Just because it had been in storage, as that makes putting it in storage very expensive to do if it's leased.

[sanabas]

If it's in storage, you don't do any maintenance.

If it's in storage when lease ends, it goes back to the owner without any fresh maintenance being done by you. You only need to do expired C/D checks if you take it out of storage.

Even if it's not in storage, if you have no routes scheduled to it, then you also don't need A/B checks scheduled. And if you turn off automatic C/D checks, you can let those expire too without penalty. But you have to be *very* careful in that case to not let C/D checks expire on planes you are flying.

But if it's a leased plane that you never intend to fly again, then it's much cheaper to simply terminate the lease. If you have leased planes that you don't intend to fly and are so cash-poor you can't afford to terminate leases, then odds are you have bigger issues.

[Vectis]

Thankyou, that has helped.
I'm a new airline and I am planning the most cost effective way of upgrading my leased 20 year old starter fleet to something more long term and more cost effective.

[pmarrsouth1]

But if it's a leased plane that you never intend to fly again, then it's much cheaper to simply terminate the lease.

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