where are they going to park all the planes?

[Yidwann]

Another photo of the BA’s parked at Bournemouth! Feeling for everyone in aviation at the moment really uncertain times!

[montymoo]

J4CKO said:

Blippy said:

48k said:

J4CKO said:

I was told airlines typically want the planes flying regularly, even now to keep them in readiness and also the pilots need to keep their hours up, does that sound accurate ?

Sounds rubbish to me. Engineering will look after the aircraft and crews will use simulators.

Not rubbish at all; depends on the airframe but some of them will have to be looked after differently ("storage maintenance" as mentioned above) within as little as 7 days sitting un-flown.

Some operators will be flying circuits fairly soon.

My son works for Ryanair and he told me that, heard the same thing and there was a Flightradar trace of one of theirs doing a short circuit, the poster was also Ryanair staff and he said the same thing.

There is no reason they cant really if they arent flying passengers to prohibited destinations, perhaps Ryanair want to be first out of the blocks when the restrictions get lifted.

Rather unexpectedly I was out a few days ago on a post maint flight, 35 min flight time. Blue skies no traffic and just great to get away from all the horrible stuff going on down here, Fantastic.
Few colleagues are actually taking aircraft up on preventive flights, basically a Sid, clean up, standard traffic pattern and back in via an ils. We also need 3 take offs and lands every 90 days for currency, so we can tick that box at the same time.
Believe they want certain aircraft flying once a week so we can get them back in the air with min maintenance when we recover from this.
We have been advised they expect no pax flights until end of may or even June.

[DeltonaS]

Schiphol, still some parking spaces left:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=76&amp...

[peterperkins]

All looks very neat...

[M4cruiser]

Schipol looks empty compared to Bournemouth!

[MarkwG]

M4cruiser said:

Schipol looks empty compared to Bournemouth!

They've got a lot more space to play with - most UK airports are tiny in terms of land, when compared with their international equivalents.

[aeropilot]

MarkwG said:

M4cruiser said:

Schipol looks empty compared to Bournemouth!

They've got a lot more space to play with

Just a bit, they have 6 runways for a start!......and a shed load of taxi ways and stands.

[surveyor]

aeropilot said:

MarkwG said:

M4cruiser said:

Schipol looks empty compared to Bournemouth!

They've got a lot more space to play with

Just a bit, they have 6 runways for a start!......and a shed load of taxi ways and stands.

Given that one runway is halfway to the uk in taxi time, they have shed loads of space...

[zb]

surveyor said:

Given that one runway is halfway to the uk in taxi time, they have shed loads of space...

I recall the first time departing from the one you refer to, I was beginning to think we were just driving back.

[MonkeyBusiness]

What are the costs for parking these planes up?

I presume these airports are charging by the day.

[QuadCamCapri]

This afternoon saw 3 Virgin A330's parked up near the threshold of 09R, still plenty of BA A320's at home, and my Puma as it's a car forum .

[DeltonaS]

MonkeyBusiness said:

What are the costs for parking these planes up?

I presume these airports are charging by the day.

Normally they do.

In case of Schiphol, the CEO of KLM told media Schiphol aiport decided not to charge anything.

[FunkyNige]

Yidwann said:

Another photo of the BA’s parked at Bournemouth! Feeling for everyone in aviation at the moment really uncertain times!

Some of the smaller BA planes are parked up at Norwich, can't find a decent photo but here's a link to the local paper
https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/a-number-of-briti...
Never seen them parked up there before.

[zombeh]

MonkeyBusiness said:

What are the costs for parking these planes up?

I presume these airports are charging by the day.

It's very variable depending on how busy they are and how much space they have, the busier the airport the more they charge for landing, the less time on the ground is included and the smaller the increments they charge in.

Normal parking charges for something like an A320 at Bournemouth is a little over £500 a day (£6.60/ton/day) and that's a fairly cheapish place, what they actually are charging in this situation I've no idea though.

Gatwick seems to be £5 per 5 minutes but free from 22:30 til 4:59 so £5250 a day?

Hence they've all been moved to the cheapest places with the most space.

[alangla]

Looks like Southend is becoming the Easyjet storage site. Loads of their aircraft have arrived in the last couple of hours.

[djc206]

alangla said:

Looks like Southend is becoming the Easyjet storage site. Loads of their aircraft have arrived in the last couple of hours.

They’re orange, they’ll blend in in Essex

[yellowjack]

djc206 said:

alangla said:

Looks like Southend is becoming the Easyjet storage site. Loads of their aircraft have arrived in the last couple of hours.

They’re orange, they’ll blend in in Essex

[DaveTheRave87]

zb said:

surveyor said:

Given that one runway is halfway to the uk in taxi time, they have shed loads of space...

I recall the first time departing from the one you refer to, I was beginning to think we were just driving back.

Landed on that one once, the Polderbaan is its nickname.

They should push the trolley round again, give everyone a little drink for the drive back to the airport.

[XJSJohn]

DaveTheRave87 said:

zb said:

surveyor said:

Given that one runway is halfway to the uk in taxi time, they have shed loads of space...

I recall the first time departing from the one you refer to, I was beginning to think we were just driving back.

Landed on that one once, the Polderbaan is its nickname.

They should push the trolley round again, give everyone a little drink for the drive back to the airport.

Did it once in a VLN Fokker 50 ... he wasn't hanging about getting to the terminal .... sounded like takeoff RPM's down teh taxiway

[peter tdci]

DaveTheRave87 said:

zb said:

surveyor said:

Given that one runway is halfway to the uk in taxi time, they have shed loads of space...

I recall the first time departing from the one you refer to, I was beginning to think we were just driving back.

Landed on that one once, the Polderbaan is its nickname.

They should push the trolley round again, give everyone a little drink for the drive back to the airport.

The only time I've flown into Amsterdam was from Stansted - it seriously felt like we were airborne for less time than the taxi to the gate!