Growing boneyards are trouble for aircraft industry

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They call them the boneyards, the places where elderly aircraft go to die, but in the normally silent desert cemeteries for the old and the unwanted the sound of alarm bells is being heard by the multibillion-dollar aircraft-leasing industry.
The boneyards, which had been emptying steadily since the airline industry suffered the catastrophic blow of the 9/11 attacks, are beginning to fill again — and that is bad news for the leasing companies that are beginning to suffer sharp falls in the value of older planes.

Growing boneyards are trouble for aircraft industry - Times Online (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article4753619.ece)

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[glhcarl]

The "boneyards" are not the cause of the airlines problem, but the result of the airlines problems.

[BigJoeRice]

"he "boneyards" are not the cause of the airlines problem, but the result of the airlines problems. Today 04:47"

You got that right!