Earlier this month, a Boeing 747 freighter took off from Lleida-Alguaire Airport in Spain, bound for Chicago and laden with urgent medical supplies. It had arrived at this little out-of-the-way airport, some 150 miles west of Barcelona, a couple of months earlier. Its operator, New York's Atlas Air, had parked it there due to lack of demand in the cargo sector -- until the coronavirus pandemic came along and turned the world on its head. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/lleida-alguaire-industrial-airport-spain/index.html Lleida-Alguaire, and other industrial airports like it, is where airplanes that have been taken out of service wait on remand. For some, like that 747, there will come a reprieve. For others, it's Death Row #chnvi#post#painting#avion4u#newsnew#news (en New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_6O84ehjpG/?igshid=m392svc9pze7
