According to an article appearing in the German news outlet Bild , an Aeroflot Airbus A320-200 departed Munich Airport only after paying a 460,000 Euro (or $493,000) parking fee. While the story is being reported now, the aircraft left Munich Airport in mid-June. The aircraft became stranded at the airport following the outbreak of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Aeroflot remains one of the airlines currently banned from European airspace . Almost $500,000 in A320 parking fees The Aeroflot Airbus A320-200 did not belong to Aeroflot but was leased from the Chinese company, "CMB Financial Leasing." According to Bild, the aircraft is eight years old and has 158 seats, and the company wanted it back to lease out to someone else (the normal leasing rate for an A320 is around $257,000).
However, German authorities would only allow it to be flown out if the parking ticket was paid. "The story began on February 27th with the landing of the Airbus plane from St. Petersburg, three days after the Russian attack on Ukraine .
Because German airspace was closed to Russian aircraft shortly afterward, the plane had to remain on the ground - for a total of 834 days." - Bild Bild suggested that the parking fee could be the most expensive in history. At the time the aircraft became stranded, it made headlines but was soon forgotten.
But lost in the background, the aircraft was incurring parking costs of between 340 and 560 euros a day. After sitting idle for over two years, the A320.
