Air New Zealand has grounded 58 planes, including 23 Airbus A320s with an average age of 16 years. Air New Zealand has grounded 58 planes due to Covid-19 so far. After that, turboprops take about 20 hours of labour per aircraft, per week to maintain while in storage. Air New Zealand said none of its planes were being broken down for parts, but Reynolds said it would be reasonable to expect. "I think you'll only find the breaking down will happen to older aircraft in the fleet," Reynolds said.

Source: Stuff April 14, 2020 02:03 UTC