Elizabeth Low

Eight of about a dozen grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft are parked on a remote taxiway at Roswell International Air Center in Roswell, New Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. A collapse in air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a plunge in fuel demand and the threat of a shortage of places to keep unwanted supplies.

Glut of jet fuel is on brink of overwhelming global storage

March 24, 2020 at 12:09 p.m.

The world is close to running out of space to store all the fuel that jets are no longer burning. Only about 20% of land-based storage for the product remains...

Vueling Airlines planes sit parked in a line at the Seville, Spain airport on March 21, 2020, idled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Airlines have cut so many flights, the world is running out of space to store all the unused jet fuel

March 23, 2020 at 10:57 a.m.

The world is nearly out of space to store all the fuel that jets are no longer burning. Only about 20% of land-based storage for the product remains — about...

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