Originally Posted by
nanyang
It's not entirely clear to me how pax could claim anything against the aircraft owner / lessor (which can be seen as a capacity supplier / creditor to SkyGreece).
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It is clear that Eurocontrol liens (and similar items) "chase the tail", but not sure that the prospective pax of SkyGreece should go after any supplier / creditor of SkyGreece, e.g. airports, fuel providers?
Nobody is going after the creditors. The airport is holding the plane because the fees aren't paid. Whoever owns the plane is mostly irrelevant.
The affected passengers want to get money, too. If the airline doesn't pay, which seems likely, the airline's assets will be liquidated. And the plane is an asset - more precisely that part of the plane which is owned by the airline.
If SkyGreece doesn't own any part, the planes is no asset.
AFAIK, there is no formal bankruptcy yet. In a bankruptcy, the rules change. But again, any share of a plane SkyGreece may own will become part of the " estate ".