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There's not much reason to turn them off outside of maintenance. When they're parked, they're connected to grid power.



Airliners are regularly and routinely shut down. "Cold and dark" is a common startup procedure for the first flight of the day.


A parked Aircraft is not kept powered when there are no maintenance or other routine(cleaning/checks/certification/preparation/restocking etc.)

It is very surprising that how a lot of comments here claim the contrary.

Even when parked for next flight, until resupply and cargo routines are declared, it is also not powered.




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