Airplanes parked in Victorville, California.Photo: Wolficorn/YoutubeA Delta Airlines pilot’s note was recently discovered on the flight deck of ship 3009, 435 days after he parked the A321 at a desert lot in Victorville, California.“Hey pilots – It’s March 23rdand we just arrived from MSP,” wrote First Officer Chris Dennis in thenote. “Very chilling to see so much of our fleet here in the desert. If you are here to pick it up then the light must be at the end of the tunnel. Amazing how fast it changed. Have a safe flight bringing it out of storage!“Dennis intended the letter to serve as a “time capsule” for what he thought would be a 14-day quarantine, which he considered a long wait at the time. He originally posted aphotoof the letter to Facebook, where it’s been shared more than 4,000 times since March 23, 2020.“Today was a day I will remember for the rest of my life,” Dennis wrote in the post. “A trip opened up to bring a Delta A321 to Victorville, CA for storage. I had no idea what I would see or the emotions I would feel. Chilling, apocalyptic, surreal..all words that still don’t fit what is happening in the world. Each one of these aircraft represents hundreds of jobs, if not more.“DeltaThe pilot compared the experience to an “optical illusion,” seeing the rows of parked planes in Victorville, where many aircrafts were stored when airlines were forced to ground flights and furlough employees at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 2020, there weremore than 400 planes being storedat Southern California Logistics Airport, where his ended up.First Officer Nick Perez finally discovered Dennis’s letter last week, as he prepared the same plane to return to the skies. “He had to have been thinking he was leaving his job,” hesaidof Dennis’s note. “Back in March, I was 100% certain I was going to lose my job.“"I kept thinking about my mindset now compared to his when he left this note,” added Perez, who’s worked for Delta for nearly five years. “[Back then], we were getting good at landing empty airplanes, now we’re going in the right direction. I’m in good spirits. I’m very optimistic. I feel like how I felt in 2017 again - ready to get going.“RELATED VIDEO: Footage Shows Airplane Parking Lot Where Planes are Being Stored Due to Low Traffic Amid Coronavirus PandemicThe travel industry certainly appears to be back in business, after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)screened an average of 1.78 million peoplea day over Memorial Day Weekend, a nearly 450% since Memorial Day last year.
Airplanes parked in Victorville, California.Photo: Wolficorn/Youtube
A Delta Airlines pilot’s note was recently discovered on the flight deck of ship 3009, 435 days after he parked the A321 at a desert lot in Victorville, California.“Hey pilots – It’s March 23rdand we just arrived from MSP,” wrote First Officer Chris Dennis in thenote. “Very chilling to see so much of our fleet here in the desert. If you are here to pick it up then the light must be at the end of the tunnel. Amazing how fast it changed. Have a safe flight bringing it out of storage!“Dennis intended the letter to serve as a “time capsule” for what he thought would be a 14-day quarantine, which he considered a long wait at the time. He originally posted aphotoof the letter to Facebook, where it’s been shared more than 4,000 times since March 23, 2020.“Today was a day I will remember for the rest of my life,” Dennis wrote in the post. “A trip opened up to bring a Delta A321 to Victorville, CA for storage. I had no idea what I would see or the emotions I would feel. Chilling, apocalyptic, surreal..all words that still don’t fit what is happening in the world. Each one of these aircraft represents hundreds of jobs, if not more.“DeltaThe pilot compared the experience to an “optical illusion,” seeing the rows of parked planes in Victorville, where many aircrafts were stored when airlines were forced to ground flights and furlough employees at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 2020, there weremore than 400 planes being storedat Southern California Logistics Airport, where his ended up.First Officer Nick Perez finally discovered Dennis’s letter last week, as he prepared the same plane to return to the skies. “He had to have been thinking he was leaving his job,” hesaidof Dennis’s note. “Back in March, I was 100% certain I was going to lose my job.“"I kept thinking about my mindset now compared to his when he left this note,” added Perez, who’s worked for Delta for nearly five years. “[Back then], we were getting good at landing empty airplanes, now we’re going in the right direction. I’m in good spirits. I’m very optimistic. I feel like how I felt in 2017 again - ready to get going.“RELATED VIDEO: Footage Shows Airplane Parking Lot Where Planes are Being Stored Due to Low Traffic Amid Coronavirus PandemicThe travel industry certainly appears to be back in business, after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)screened an average of 1.78 million peoplea day over Memorial Day Weekend, a nearly 450% since Memorial Day last year.
A Delta Airlines pilot’s note was recently discovered on the flight deck of ship 3009, 435 days after he parked the A321 at a desert lot in Victorville, California.
“Hey pilots – It’s March 23rdand we just arrived from MSP,” wrote First Officer Chris Dennis in thenote. “Very chilling to see so much of our fleet here in the desert. If you are here to pick it up then the light must be at the end of the tunnel. Amazing how fast it changed. Have a safe flight bringing it out of storage!”
Dennis intended the letter to serve as a “time capsule” for what he thought would be a 14-day quarantine, which he considered a long wait at the time. He originally posted aphotoof the letter to Facebook, where it’s been shared more than 4,000 times since March 23, 2020.
“Today was a day I will remember for the rest of my life,” Dennis wrote in the post. “A trip opened up to bring a Delta A321 to Victorville, CA for storage. I had no idea what I would see or the emotions I would feel. Chilling, apocalyptic, surreal..all words that still don’t fit what is happening in the world. Each one of these aircraft represents hundreds of jobs, if not more.”
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The pilot compared the experience to an “optical illusion,” seeing the rows of parked planes in Victorville, where many aircrafts were stored when airlines were forced to ground flights and furlough employees at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 2020, there weremore than 400 planes being storedat Southern California Logistics Airport, where his ended up.
First Officer Nick Perez finally discovered Dennis’s letter last week, as he prepared the same plane to return to the skies. “He had to have been thinking he was leaving his job,” hesaidof Dennis’s note. “Back in March, I was 100% certain I was going to lose my job.“
“I kept thinking about my mindset now compared to his when he left this note,” added Perez, who’s worked for Delta for nearly five years. “[Back then], we were getting good at landing empty airplanes, now we’re going in the right direction. I’m in good spirits. I’m very optimistic. I feel like how I felt in 2017 again - ready to get going.”
RELATED VIDEO: Footage Shows Airplane Parking Lot Where Planes are Being Stored Due to Low Traffic Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The travel industry certainly appears to be back in business, after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)screened an average of 1.78 million peoplea day over Memorial Day Weekend, a nearly 450% since Memorial Day last year.
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