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The Dutch Air Transport and Environmental Control Authority announced that six jumbo jets belonging to German airline Lufthansa had been cleared from the small Twente airport and headed for the scrapyard.
This move is part of the reduction of Lufthansa affected by the Corona epidemic of its fleet, and the Dutch authorities had previously refused to let the six Boeing 747-400s decommissioned by Lufthansa.
According to data issued by the Dutch authority today, Thursday, exceptional permits have been issued for the six planes once the airport has met certain security requirements, and both parties (the authority and the airport) came to an agreement ahead of an imminent court hearing.
Lufthansa described it as an airport problem.
The problem first appeared as if the giant plane was stuck at the airport near the German border, which is an airport which is not allowed to receive such large planes. Three planes were due to depart this year, along with two more, which were stationed at Lourdes airport in France, where these planes will be dismantled and converted to scrap in the US Mojave Desert by GE Aviation Materials.
Three more planes were due to leave the Dutch airport in the middle of the year, when Lufthansa finds buyers.
It is worth noting that Lufthansa no longer needs to use the six planes, each of which has four engines, due to insufficient fuel consumption.
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