You're both wrong faced fools! Rieekan keeps the ships going until the end of status unless you floop the sheep at the dual lands pokecenter, which of course would happen 99 times out 100 with the one obvious exception, which I'm not gonna spell out for you. Ghawd.
TL;DR Its super obvious that rieekan keeps the fire planes in the air until they fall down, and your fathers smell of elderberries.