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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:
rodan-
I know a CFO for a major airline. They are in advanced stages of sending their planes to the desert. Financial implications are huge. In his words, planes are made to fly so they’re trying to keep them moving as much as financially possible but the turning point is this Monday when they have to decide how many planes are going to the desert. Their average fleet age is less than 7 years apparently, one of the youngest in the industry.
jaw
@radar
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?