Storage of aircraft at constrained airports
Looking at the BASource I see that four aircraft were flown to other airports for storage (Abuja - Lagos, SFO - OAK, EWR - IAD & BOS - IAD. Why is this? I know that some of the airports are rather tight on space but I would have thought they could accommodate extra aircraft for a couple of days. As the strike was affecting outbound flights presumably aircraft are being held abroad as they really wouldn't have been any space at LHR for the entire BA based fleet. Haven't aircraft been ferried to places such as Cardiff during Thanksgiving & Xmas.
As an aside I remember large numbers of Pan Am aircraft at stored in remote areas at LHR during a strike in 1985 including two jumbos in their maintenance area.