Cathay Pacific repatriates the last of its planes from pandemic exile

One of Asia’s biggest airlines has repatriated the last of its aircraft from pandemic exile in the remote Australian Outback. Cathay Pacific grounded a large proportion of its fleet of roughly 170 planes when COVID lockdowns decimated the aviation sector in 2020. But four years after parking dozens of jets in the middle of the […]

At its height, rows and rows of commercial aircraft from around the world were stored at the Alice Springs operational base of Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage (APAS). The on-site maintenance teams and low-humidity conditions of the town in Australia’s Northern Territory were ideal for mothballed planes, and Cathay Pacific eventually placed 76 with APAS. Read More