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The A330-200 has vanished from American Airlines’ operations.

The US carrier announced on Wednesday it would put its entire A330-200 fleet into deep storage at least until 2022, with routes served with the type to be covered by B777s and 787s.

As realisation sinks in that the road back to pre-Covid-19 passenger numbers will likely take two or three years, the fate of some of the grounded planes looks increasingly hazy.

By mid-April, the pandemic had grounded more than 16,000 passenger jets – ...