Grounded Asian airplanes at risk of damage as monsoon arrives


SYDNEY/TAIPEI (Reuters): Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region's tropical storm season begins, as hundreds of aircraft grounded by the coronavirus pandemic can't be moved easily.

Major airports in storm-vulnerable regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and India have been effectively turned into giant parking spaces as Covid-19 travel restrictions choke demand.

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