许多人预测，当疫情来临时，飞机的报废将大幅增加，但实际上这并没有发生。

Many predicted a huge spike in aircraft retirements when COVID-19 hit. But that didn’t happen. 

这是因为许多航空公司在决定将飞机退役前都处于观望状态，以免他们提前退役了飞机，而没有足够的机队来支撑市场的突然反弹。

This is because many operators are taking a wait-and-see position before they remove aircraft from their books, lest they be caught without enough lift to support a sudden bounce-back in demand.
 

在大流行开始时，飞机退役工作加速进行，导致2020年3月的退役机队开始激增。传统观点看来，到年底将有更多的飞机退休。

Retirements were accelerated at the start of the pandemic, causing an initial spike in retirements in March 2020. Traditionally, more aircraft were retired towards the end of the year.