What chief pilot or Director is going to risk the wrath of the CEO for a plane gone tech in Russia? Not saying it’s right or defensible, but every CEO who threw a fit over a broke plane owns a piece of this story.
A rather large aerospace company that used to be quite vocal about “We support our airline customers and don’t own a company jet” does exactly the same nonsense. “CHI-BFI with a load factor of 2, we want it spared.”
My retirement would be much better if I could get 10% of the money spent on useless spares.
GF