Qatar Airways has dispatched nearly a dozen of its widebodies to a storage facility at Teruel Airport (TEV) in Spain amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.
FlightRadar24 showed five Airbus A330s landing at the airport, which has space for 120 aircraft, within the last 48 hours. They arrived primarily from their base in Doha; one flew in from Cairo.
A Qatar Airbus A380 was also shown recently on the ground at Teruel, having flown in from London Heathrow.
Qatar Airways widebodies sent to storage
On Friday morning, another tranche of Qatari aircraft was en route, including three Airbus A350-900s, a Boeing 787-8 and a Boeing 787-9. Their departure airports – all in Africa – ranged from Lagos to Cape Town.
Teruel Airport is a major European base for aircraft maintenance, storage, and recycling, and is home to TARMAC Aerosave.
Additional recent arrivals into Teruel include an Emirates and British Airways A380. There have been no recent arrivals of Etihad aircraft, the third of the Middle East big three, according to FlightRadar24.
Aircraft flown to Teruel may be going through deep maintenance and are not necessarily there to enter long-term storage, or to be scrapped.
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