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Short answer: No, not for long.
Long answer: no aircraft repair and replacement parts, low maintenance quality, they would be playing Russian roulette
No deal. >

Maybe return the leased jets that they stole,
Oh no. They want to buy them at a discounted price >

If I had Leased out any of those Jets, I would not want them back.
No telling what condition they are in at this point and who knows what the Russians have done to those Planes in the interim.
Forget it, no deal - my Company would just have to take the L on those Aircraft.
It's a pretty big L, but dayum, don't steal my shit and then expect for me to do a deal with you to purchase the shit you stole.
Anyway, it will be amusing to watch Russia have to cannibalize Parts and then eventually run completely out of them.
Edit: A Sentence. >

If they sold the aircraft then they wouldn't be able to claim on insurance. >

What were they thinking doing business in Russia?
It's been randomly invading countries since 2008 and is under international sanctions.
These firms are cowboys.
Either the risk should have been part of the price/insured and they should come out of it ok, or they don't deserve to be bailed out. >

The western firms will probably end up selling them anyway. Money is more important then morals for these companies. >

The maintenance history on those aircraft is already fucked... it's coming up on a year of no spare parts or authorised maintenance procedures, together with the aircraft sitting idle outdoors in a country with absolutely shit weather conditions. I'm 100% certain that they've been properly covered, serviced and periodically spun up, and that no-one stole the fuel and forged maintenance records at all...
Due to the above, even if the aircraft came back into the ownership of the original companies, you could never really trust them again. If you leased them out and any accident were to occur, the leasing company would be absolutely fucked. >

I hear Aerosucre frantically rubbing their hands together. Goody goody! >

Can't Russia just keep on using those jets? They've done expropriation of assets left behind by other western companies.