COVID-19 has turned airports into ghost towns and reduced global air traffic to a tiny fraction of what it normally is. But in this dusty outback in the Northern Territory, the plane population is booming.
Billions of dollars worth of passenger jets are waiting out the pandemic in the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage facility near Alice Springs, where the dry climate is ideal for preserving them until they’re needed again.
Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific are among the airlines that have sent much of their grounded fleet there, including mighty Airbus A380s.
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