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“The corona virus is striking worldwide. The impact of the virus has forced KLM to decide to ground most of its fleet for the time being. The result: an overcrowded Schiphol. Not because of the passengers walking around, but because of all the planes parked there. A unique, but obviously sad situation. And a complex puzzle.”

This is how a story by Annemiek Cornielje begins, which recently appeared on the KLM travel blog under the title “How almost all KLM planes are parked”. She describes what is involved and what happens to the parked aircraft in terms of inspection and maintenance. The article is embellished with beautiful photos and that is one of the reasons why we are not copying it completely, but would like to refer to the link: blog.klm.com/nl/alle-klm-vliegen-geparkeerd-schiphol

3 responses to “What KLM does with the temporarily unemployed aircraft”

  1. john says up

    Interesting blog, I fear that they will be parked there for a few more months (certainly until December, or even further..) and the municipality of Amsterdam will not come up with the idea of ​​installing parking machines there.
    As it looks now, there is no vaccine available for the time being, and with that 1,5 meter "law" you absolutely cannot fly with this in the current setup.
    This is a global disaster that will be remembered for a long time.
    And imagine that the infections here decrease somewhat and that we can carefully go outside again, then it cannot mean that it is also the case at the destination.
    So that's going to be a lot of facetiming in the backyard over the next few months, and "donating" a lot of money to the loved ones in Thailand.

  2. Ben2 says up

    Schiphol is located in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and fortunately the municipality of Amsterdam has nothing to say.

    • Tnt says up

      Schiphol Group is 69,77% owned by the Dutch State (Ministry of Finance), 20,03% by the Municipality of Amsterdam and 2,2% by the Municipality of Rotterdam. The remaining eight percent have been owned by Aéroports de Paris since 2008.


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