Originally Posted by
chornedsnorkack
For example, suppose that you land in an airport and as the plane taxies to the gate, the airline goes bankrupt.
What happens to the airport?
The plane cannot fly away because the airline cannot pay the wages or pensions of the pilots, and also because the plane cannot tank unless someone pays for fuel.
The airport must pay upfront to move the plane to where it costs the least to keep and thereafter lose the value of a valuable parking spot.
They have no guarantee of being able to recoup their airport fees by selling the aircraft, as warned above.
Thats like 15 questions in one! Let me take a stab at this one. First off, no airport is going to keep passengers locked on a plane until they pay the landing fees. The airport authority would be facing false imprisonment charges for doing so. The passengers in good faith bought a ticket and paid the fees.
The plane has value, regardless of the insolvency of the airline. The airport could probably slap a lien on the airplane to recoup their losses. Whether they collect or not is a different story.