Heartbreaking Images of Planes Parked in Desert Reveals Impact of COVID-19 on Aviation World

As COVID-19 grips nations all over the world, a number of of them have imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb its outbreak. With journey restrictions and sealed borders, the aviation sector is dealing with one of many worst occasions in its historical past. As parking proves to be a vital subject in these occasions a current {photograph} exhibits Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER and Delta 767-300ER flights parked within the Arizona desert.

Taxiways, upkeep hangars and even runways at main airports are being remodeled into big parking heaps for greater than 2,500 airliners, the most important of which takes up about as a lot room as an eight-story constructing with a footprint 3/four the scale of an American soccer area.

The variety of planes in storage has doubled to greater than 5,000 because the begin of the 12 months, in accordance with Cirium information, with extra anticipated to be parked within the coming weeks as carriers like Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd and Singapore Airlines Ltd proceed with additional introduced cuts to flight schedules.

In Frankfurt, Germany’s largest airport is a ghost city of silent airliners. Its northwest touchdown runway, together with taxiways and bridges, has been transformed to an plane car parking zone for Lufthansa, Condor and different airways. Lufthansa model Swiss has rented parking spots at a army airport near Zurich.

Similar crowds of planes are parked at different main airports, together with Hong Kong, Seoul, Berlin and Vienna in addition to conventional desert parking heaps in Victorville, California, and Marana, Arizona, in accordance with information from flight-tracking web site FlightRadar24.

In Manila, some Philippines Airlines jets are parked within the Lufthansa Technik Philippines hangar, an airline official mentioned.

(With inputs from Reuters)

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