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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by SoftTalker on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:28PM (#36637884)
I don't think anyone buys them, period. They lease them. When the lease is up, they are re-leased or maybe sold to second-hand leasing companies or second-tier airlines, and ultimately they end up as freighters or scrapped.

The last of the DC-10s/MD-11s only recently ended service with FedEx. They may actually still be flying some MD-11s.

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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by bobthepanda on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:03PM (#36638262)
Buying is fairly common; Indigo just placed the largest ever single purchase of airplanes (500) https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-wi...

If you’re leasing it’s not for free, the lessor is charging you a premium to make a profit over what they’re spending, so it still makes sense to own, particularly for large, heavily utilized fleets that don’t scale down much.

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