I went to the Independence Air liquidation. All the majors were there. AA, CO, US, UA, Jazz, African, Horizon, etc. They had representatives buying the big stuff. Many had tractor trailers. All the pictures are still on the website in the archives. One guy from India bought fifty monitors for fifty dollars total. I got two Dell-Pentium4s for $25 each, a swivel office chair for $1, two TVs with VCR for $35 each, defibrillators, fire extinguishers, inflight medical kits,and more. AA and US bought a few de-icing trucks at 100K-120K; they are around 225K new. Some pick-up trucks went for $500-$1000. I put in a bid for an employee shuttle van at $300 (don't ask me why), and it sold for $400. Entire corporate office rooms were sold for $50 each, that's the table, chairs, lamps, boards, plants, trash cans. Everything that was not bolted or bolted was SOLD. After four whole days of auctioning; I did not spend more than $300!
I really should add that some of my friends and neighbors were FlyI people, and although we really enjoyed the fire sale, there was a lot of sadness and lots of tears. One of my friends, Eric, who was VP of Marketing was simply stunned as he watched his beautiful executive office go for nothing.
