Aircraft graveyards: What happens to old planes?

By Michael Gebicki
Updated May 20 2016 - 12:13pm, first published 12:04pm
The 727 Fuselage Home at Hotel Costa Verde, Costa Rica. Photo: TripAdvisor
The 727 Fuselage Home at Hotel Costa Verde, Costa Rica. Photo: TripAdvisor
The airplane suite at Teuge Airport. Photo: vliegtuighotel.nl
The airplane suite at Teuge Airport. Photo: vliegtuighotel.nl
The Wing House in Malibu is built from a Boeing 747. Photo: Wing House/Facebook
The Wing House in Malibu is built from a Boeing 747. Photo: Wing House/Facebook

The amount of money airlines invest into their aircrafts is mind-boggling. A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner sells for $US265 million. Current list price of a new Airbus A380 is $US432.6 million. Emirates has 75 Airbus A380s in its fleet, with more on order.  By contrast, the world's largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, cost $US1.35 billion to build, about the same as three A380s.

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