Delta, United, and other airlines are sending their largest planes to the desert for storage...

....as they drastically reduce operations due to coronavirus

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news...o-coronavirus/

Pinal Air Park in Arizona is best known for being an aircraft boneyard where
aging aircraft are stored and scrapped for parts.
Iconic airliners from yesteryear including the Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas
DC-9 line the taxiways and parking areas of the isolated airfield.
Delta Air Lines, among others, are now turning to the airfield for storage as
the novel coronavirus continues to reduce the demand for air travel and the need
for wide-body aircraft.

Ninety miles south of Phoenix is an airport located in the middle of the Arizona
desert just off of an isolated strip of I-10. With only one runway and no
passenger terminal, Pinal Air Park doesn't see commercial airline service but it
is home to some of the most iconic aircraft ever to roam the skies.

Known in the industry as an aircraft boneyard, Pinal Air Park is where aircraft
are housed for long-term storage. In other words, it's a retirement home of
sorts for grounded airliners whose time has come as newer, younger planes take
their place in airline fleets across the world.

At the airfield in Marana, Arizona, the skeletons of old workhorses, including
some from airlines that do not exist anymore, can be found baking in the desert
sun. While their time in the sky has long passed, their parts continue to prove
useful to current sky-bound aircraft.

Though most aircraft that enter storage in Marana never take to the skies again,
the COVID-19 crisis has given the town a slew of new arrivals that airlines hope
will only be temporary visitors rather permanent residents.



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