Where is American Parking its Big / Widebody Jets?

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Apr 2, 2020, 9:17 pm

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Originally Posted by AAway

Since ROW has scheduled service, wouldn't they just take the next flight back to PHX or DFW, like in your PIT example?

They wouldn't. From the description of "abandoned", "not currently used", "clear dirt and grass:, I assumed it was an unused airport.

But then I'm curious why there was a question of how a pilot would get home from an airport their airline serves. They do that every day.

Apr 2, 2020, 9:48 pm

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Originally Posted by pmiranda

TUL is not where I would park alot of planes in tornado season. DFW too. I know they do alot of maintenance there, but I would be parking them in the southwest US.

The odds of a damaging tornado hitting an area the size of a house in the tornado prone area of the US in a particular year are about 1 in 10 million. Adjust that to the area of a bunch of airplanes and I suspect the expected value of tornado damage (which actaull means the deductible and and increased insurance premiums), probably is a very minor consideration in comparing the costs of storage at various locations.

Apr 3, 2020, 9:18 am

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Originally Posted by CPRich

ROW is definitely not an “unused airport.” There’s regularly-scheduled American Eagle flights to DFW and PHX (like the previous poster said), even now...though most are being cancelled.

Apr 4, 2020, 12:44 am

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Originally Posted by SJCFlyerLG

Delta and United have also been flying widebodies to ROW. Frontier is flying quite a few of their planes there today. Apparently, the storage fees at ROW are very low. Now if they started to take them to Pinal, I'd say the end is near.

$14 per day is cheaper than car parking in some places.

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