Coronavirus: How the travel downturn is sending jet planes to 'boneyards'
Qantas said they had planned on retiring the plane in six months but brought forward the date because the coronavirus pandemic hadThe pandemic has forced a large number of commercial airlines to ground their fleets in a handful of vast storage facilities around the world, some located in remote, arid deserts.
Aeroplanes can be stored for a long time at these locations. Experts say airlines would typically incur a monthly cost of around $5,000 to maintain the aircraft in a"long-term storage programme". Alice Springs in central Australia and Mojave in eastern California, for example, are two favoured locations. Other well-known storage locations are in Marana in Arizona and Roswell in New Mexico."Deserts offer two key components: large areas of open flat land, and climate that slows the corrosion of metal parts," Mr Petchenik says. The low humidity along with low aerosol and air particulates in these parts help store aeroplanes for a long time.
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