Parked aircrafts are seen at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Security employees controlling passengers and luggage are on a one day lasting strike for higher wages. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A top-secret Russian seaplane, which never really got off the ground, has been beached as an unofficial oceanside tourist attraction in Derbent, Russian Federation and photographed by photo-reporter Lana Sator in 2022. The futuristic-looking MD-160 Lun class ekranoplan – also known as an Utka – is bigger than a 747 jet and was built as part of the Soviet WIG programme, which dates back to the Cold War 1960s. (Photo by Lana Sator/WENN)





An Airbus A380 takes off after Airbus makes its last ever delivery of an A380 to Emirates in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Germany, December 16, 2021. (Photo by Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)





A replica of a Portuguese Navy Fairey III-D seaplane used in the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic floats on the Tagus river in Lisbon during celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the flight, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Portuguese Navy airmen Carlos Gago Coutinho and Artur de Sacadura Cabral flew from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro in 1922. (Photo by Armando Franca/AP Photo)





Aircraft roll over a runway at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, after sunset on Thursday, September 22, 2021. Budget airline Ryanair says it will stop serving Germany’s busiest airport at the end of March and close its base there. Ryanair said Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 that it's reallocating five planes it has based at Frankfurt Airport to other European airports that “have responded with lower airport charges to stimulate traffic recovery”. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo/File)





An helicopter fills water during a wildfire near Pyrgos town, western Greece, Thursday, August 5, 2021. Wildfires rekindled outside Athens and forced more evacuations around southern Greece Thursday as weather conditions worsened and firefighters in a round-the-clock battle stopped the flames just outside the birthplace of the ancient Olympics. (Photo by Giannis Spyrounis/ilialive.gr via AP Photo)





Thai Airways idle airplanes are seen parked on the tarmac of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand on May 25, 2020. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





An ATR 72-600 passenger plane of Ukraine's Windrose Airlines flying to Odesa takes off during its first flight at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine on June 27, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





An ITA Airways passenger jet approaches to land at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, on July 1, 2022. German airline Lufthansa said it submitted an offer Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023 to take a minority stake in Italy’s ITA Airways Spa, formerly Alitalia. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





In this undated photo provided by Virgin Orbit on Monday, January 9, 2023, Virgin Atlantic Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft that will carry a rocket, is parked at Spaceport Cornwall, at Cornwall Airport in Newquay, England. Engineers are making final preparations for the first satellite launch from the U.K. later Monday, when a repurposed passenger plane is expected to release a Virgin Orbit rocket carrying several small satellites into space. (Photo by Virgin Orbit via AP Photo)





A Swiss International aircraft flies past the HSBC headquarters building in the Canary Wharf financial district in east London on February 15, 2015. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Reuters)





An aircraft passes the moon that is slightly covered Wirth clouds in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, late May 11, 2022. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A Qantas A380 takes off from Sydney Airport over Botany Bay as a fisherman stands on breakwater in Sydney, Australia, Monday, September 5, 2022. Australian national carrier Qantas posted an underlying pre-tax half-year profit of 1.43 billion Australian dollars ($978 million) on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, in the airline's first return to profit since the coronavirus pandemic started three years ago. (Photo by Mark Baker/AP Photo)





In this Monday, April 20, 2020 file photo, Boeing 747 aircrafts of German Lufthansa are parked at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. After almost exactly 32 years, Dax founding member Lufthansa has vacated its place in the first German stock exchange league. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo/File)





Netherlands Antilles Sint Maarten – Boeing 747-400 of KLM in approach for the “Princess Juliana” airport on July 2, 2002. (Photo by LUPOO/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)