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Nah, there’s room. If parking stands run out, they just get shunted to a remote apron, or taxiways and unused runways get closed off and they go there. Airfields are big places.
Occasionally this gets taken to extremes, like on 11/9/01 when the USA closed its airspace abruptly and a lot of transatlantic traffic had to land at Gander in Canada:
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There is a company that rents out space and maintenance for parked planes. Based close to Adeleide if I remember correctly. A couple of months ago they had boing max 737 stored.
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I remember a story during the millennium bug scare where they supposedly had to make space in the Australian desert for planes to land as there wasn't enough room in the airports for all planes in the world to be grounded at the same time.
Wondering if that was true, and if so, what about the plane parking management now?