Airline Crunch Victims Graveyard.
I stumbled upon this post from the Daily Mail dated 10th November 2008, showing all the budget airlines that have fallen victim to the credit crunch. They lie abandoned at Lasham Airfield near Basingstoke. Most of them are brand new and sport brightly coloured bodies. Some names you might remember (XL Airways planes sit side-by-side with aircraft once owned by Futura International Airways a carrier based in Majorca, Spain, that was declared bankrupt in September. There is also Estonian airline Aero).
Lasham, originally an RAF airfield, is now the home of the UK’s largest gliding club and the ATC independent aircraft maintenance company, which is dealing with the planes grounded by the credit crunch. ATC say all the 11 planes are owned by leasing companies which are now seeking to re-lease them.
More Photos:
- The planes are being stored until they are either sold off or used for scrap.
- Three XL airlines and three Aero Airways planes lie unused on the tarmac.
- The planes are being stored until they are either sold off or used for scrap.
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