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Originally Posted by speede5
I may have been a bit overzealous on that, I work on military aircraft where everything costs a lot more than it should.
That said, having a jet in a spray booth for 10 days or so cant be cheap, and there is a lot of materials being used there. I had heard the first Disney deal to be worth around one million. It would be reasonable that the paint alone was less.
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You may have alluded to this in your "in a spray booth for 10 days" remark, but there can be more than just the cost of the actual paint job too.
If the aircraft is leased, its not making any money sitting there parked. I don't know what WJ does in regards to fleet financing, but most airlines don't have $50M cash lying around to buy a 737NG outright. If you lease a jet, its best to have it in the air as much as possible...thats how it makes money.