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This ‘airplane parking lot’ at Alice Springs has never been busier – Executive Traveller
Already home to over 100 jets, the outback storage facility being expanded to take 60 additional jets.
Aircraft engineer Dan Baker expected his career would let him see the world. And since starting as an apprentice aged 16 with British Airways in London, its taken him to Africa, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the Middle East, where he worked for Emirates.
Now hes in a desert of a different sort Australias vast red center. With the coronavirus pandemic upending global aviation and putting millions out of work, Baker has found an unlikely job in Alice Springs, storing and maintaining scores of grounded…
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