López Obrador said he is considering raffling off the plane by selling six million raffle tickets at $25 apiece.
This Dec. 3, 2018 photo provided by the Mexican Presidential press office shows the presidential airplane at the presidential hangar at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City. Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has made selling off the luxurious presidential jet a centerpiece of his austerity program, but there's just one problem: Nobody, it seems, wants to buy the white elephant.
López Obrador said he is considering raffling off the plane by selling six million raffle tickets at $25 apiece. López Obrador has floated four other ideas for selling the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, after the $130 million jet failed to find a buyer after year on sale at a U.S. airstrip, where it piled up about $1.5 million in maintenance costs.
“Help me,” he pleaded with reporters at his morning news conference, obviously floundering for ways to get rid of the plane.The jet is expensive to run and now configured to carry only 80 people, albeit with a full presidential suite with a bedroom and private bath; experts say it would be too expensive to reconfigure back into a commercial airliner that normally carries as many as 300 passengers.
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