A patch of dry desert dirt near Alice Springs has become an eerie backdrop for lines of “mothballed” aircraft.
Singapore Airlines has sent seven planes — four superjumbo Airbus A380s and three Boeing 777s –to the Northern Territory’s Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage facility, to join passenger jets from budget subsidiary Scoot.
Outback Photographics photographer Steve Strike captured images of the “global parking lot”.
“Some $5billion worth of Aircraft from around the world now being holed up in the desert near Alice Springs due to COVID-19 travel downturn,” he wrote on Facebook.