Six Lufthansa 747s "Stuck" At Small Dutch Airport Now Allowed To Depart
Six Lufthansa 747s that were put into storage in the Netherlands weren't allowed to leave the airport. A resolution has now been reached.
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how could something like this happen?Lufthansa is preparing to scrap these 747s, but has decided to do so elsewhere (not at Twente Airport), a move that the airport leadership respects. This week Lufthansa hoped to have its 747s leave the airport, but there’s one major problem — the planes aren’t allowed to take off from there, as reported by Tubantia.
What happened? In a situation that the airport director calls “too absurd for words,” the Netherland’s Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate has allegedly issued an interim permit change that prevents 747s from taking off at the airport. In other words, 747s can land at the airport, but can’t take off from there.
It’s not entirely clear what caused this policy change, though, since the airport suggests that 747s taking off wasn’t an issue in the past.