Incredible satellite photos show parked planes sitting on runways at airports in the US and Europe, as COVID-19 puts a near stop to global air travel

At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, planes are parked along many taxiways.

To maximize the space, planes have been towed and parked closely together, where technicians can work and get them back into service quickly once demand for air travel picks up.

Over in Germany, there are similar scenes at Frankfurt International Airport.

Grounded planes are parked over on runway 07L/25R, the airport's shortest runway. The aircraft are sitting idle until air traffic picks back up.

The Lufthansa planes are both long- and short-haul — this closeup shows longer-range jets.

This is Copenhagen Airport in Denmark. The airport has three runways — right now, it's storing grounded planes on the taxiway next to runway 04L/22R, toward the left of the image.

Here's a closer look.

The planes — both long-haul wide-bodies, and short-haul narrow-bodies, belong to SAS, or Scandinavian Airlines. SAS has temporarily laid off 90% of its staff — or 10,000 workers — and halted most of its flights.

Mobile Regional Airport in Alabama has also turned into a storage facility. In addition to planes parked at terminal buildings and hangers, a row of what appear to be widebody jets are parked along runway 18/36.

The planes appear to be Boeing 777-200 jets usually used on some of the airline's longest flights from its hubs — not a usual guest in Mobile. The jets will likely remain grounded until demand for travel picks back up. American Airlines has said it is also storing Airbus A321 narrow-bodies at the airport.