What's going on in the air?

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Originally Posted by HPsauce

Novelty arrival at Heathrow! Heard a large loud plane a few minutes ago on the approach track to Heathrow just a couple of miles south of us.
An A380 of China Southern Airlines from Guangzhou, it's just landed (early).

Not so much a novelty now, but a rarity. Excluding scrapped, ordered and not built yet, there are 236 A380s that have been put in storage. That only leaves 5 currently flying, three of which are operated by China Southern Airlines.

The numbers are staggering. There's a short video on YouTube giving some insight into the current situation. Roughly 24,000 planes worldwide, with 16,000 being put into storage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpIs8Y9vgSs

Cost wise, it costs something like US$30,000 per month to put them in storage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7li6ozxo-rQ