where are they going to park all the planes?
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At Heathrow we are parking up in hangars and implemented a more extreme version of our Christmas parking over on East and West base with many aircraft parked/ to be parked everywhere they can! As well as utilising BAMG and BAMC (Cardiff and Glasgow/ Prestwick) and various other airports.
fuzzymonkey said:
Could this mean that the MAXs never get fixed?
I think "the fix" will be created. Then if everything is tits up, they'll sell the existing planes at a whacking loss just to move them to airlines that wouldn't have wanted one otherwise, but can't ignore the fuel savings.nessiemac said:
At Heathrow we are parking up in hangars and implemented a more extreme version of our Christmas parking over on East and West base with many aircraft parked/ to be parked everywhere they can!
Yes, I noticed that over the past few days when returning to PEX on the bus.Munter said:
I think "the fix" will be created. Then if everything is tits up, they'll sell the existing planes at a whacking loss just to move them to airlines that wouldn't have wanted one otherwise, but can't ignore the fuel savings.
Isn’t it grounded globally until it is proven to be safe if it’s never proved safe on the ground it will stay Welshbeef said:
Munter said:
I think "the fix" will be created. Then if everything is tits up, they'll sell the existing planes at a whacking loss just to move them to airlines that wouldn't have wanted one otherwise, but can't ignore the fuel savings.
Isn’t it grounded globally until it is proven to be safe if it’s never proved safe on the ground it will stay I'm beginning to think it will never fly again.
I think Boeing's recent 'request' for $60bn aid package because of the virus impact, is using the virus as a scapegoat to cover the likelyhood of the Max never flying again.
To the original question, there's lots of airfields all over the place that can be used. Please actually there's quite a bit of space in active airports - Luton, Stansted etc have a good bit of space, even if parking spots at Heathrow & Gatwick are limited. But FWIW, I think even Heathrow and Gatwick have a good bit of space - just on the further out stands not on the airbridges.
Local one to me - Lasham. Post 2008 crash, I used to ride round Lasham and you could see all the planes parked up - IIRC mostly shorthall stuff, 737s and A320s.
For wider scale parking, some of the warm and dry US locations are perfect for a longer layup.
Local one to me - Lasham. Post 2008 crash, I used to ride round Lasham and you could see all the planes parked up - IIRC mostly shorthall stuff, 737s and A320s.
For wider scale parking, some of the warm and dry US locations are perfect for a longer layup.
Arnold Cunningham said:
To the original question, there's lots of airfields all over the place that can be used. Please actually there's quite a bit of space in active airports - Luton, Stansted etc have a good bit of space, even if parking spots at Heathrow & Gatwick are limited. But FWIW, I think even Heathrow and Gatwick have a good bit of space - just on the further out stands not on the airbridges.
Local one to me - Lasham. Post 2008 crash, I used to ride round Lasham and you could see all the planes parked up - IIRC mostly shorthall stuff, 737s and A320s.
For wider scale parking, some of the warm and dry US locations are perfect for a longer layup.
I can remember walking around Lasham in the early 70s looking at all the comets.Local one to me - Lasham. Post 2008 crash, I used to ride round Lasham and you could see all the planes parked up - IIRC mostly shorthall stuff, 737s and A320s.
For wider scale parking, some of the warm and dry US locations are perfect for a longer layup.
Apologies for the repost from the FlightRader thread but Atlanta has closed 3 runways to allow extra parking for Delta's planes:
https://simpleflying.com/delta-parked-planes-atlan...
https://simpleflying.com/delta-parked-planes-atlan...
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