Have you lost your jumbo jet?

The airport operator in Malaysia is facing an unusual dilemma, after three large Boeing planes were left abandoned at the main airport for more than a year.

Kuala Lumpur Airport has issued an international appeal, looking for the owners of the 747 jets that have been left behind.

If they are not claimed from lost property within two weeks, the airport is threatening to sell them to pay unpaid parking bills.

The planes are said to be worth only a few million euro each - compared to €345m for a brand new one.

Malaysia Airports has placed adverts in newspapers, and on their social media, asking for the owners to come forward.

Adverts placed in the The Star and Sin Chew Daily newspapers | Image: Facebook/Malaysia Airports

The group says the adverts "serve as notice to the owner of the aircraft that the aircraft may be sold to recover the charges owed by the owner to Malaysia Airports".

"The giving of such notice by way of advertisement is a common and reasonable step in the process of debt recovery especially in cases where the company concerned has ceased operations and is a foreign entity whereby exhaustive steps undertaken to find a contact person have not been successful".

"This step is also a common process undertaken by airport operators all over the world when faced with such a situation", it adds.