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| Global weekly number of commercial airline flights before and after COVID-19 |
The number of commercial airlines flights has plummeted since the beginning of the year, which means airlines have been parking large numbers of aircraft in boneyards in out of the way locations like Victorville, California, Roswell, New Mexico and Marana, Arizona. But what about Europe? They aren't going to want to fly all their excess airplanes half way around the world just to park them.
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| Teruel Airport, Spain |
No, they fly them to Teruel, Spain. I've always thought of Spain as being hot, dry and dusty like the American Southwest. Maybe not, but Teruel is.
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| Mudéjar Cathedral of Teruel |
Turuel is a small town, famous for some fancy churches (above) and a big battle that was a turning point in the Spanish Civil War in 1938.
Via FlightAware, which links to CNN which I didn't link to because their page never stops loading.
P.S. Google Maps 3D function works on the hills around Teruel, but not on the buildings, unlike some more famous places.
I read in the US some airlines are flying empty planes on a few routes to maintain the right to that route with the FAA. I also read parking a plane for 3 months means about 120 hours of maintenance before returning to service. I got to the CNN link with no problem, some pretty good pictures there.
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