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General Chat / Re: Maintenance: age, hours, or both?

« on: April 04, 2011, 04:12:14 pm »

i just took a look at my maintenance, and even for a new airline (with the same planes i started with), that expense is growing by 4% each month!!  i know there have been hints of a new maintenance formula floating out there, but i'm sure that if real airlines experienced 4% M-o-M increases in their maintenance expense, they wouldn't bother being in the business in the first place!!

anyway, small commuter props / jets (fokker 50, fokker f28 fellowship, bae 146-300) are definitely the way to go.  from a margin standpoint, these aircraft (all leased at the moment) are doing much better than my a320's or 757's...

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General Chat / Maintenance: age, hours, or both?

« on: April 02, 2011, 05:29:14 pm »

I'm leasing 6 BAe-146-300's right now in my game...funny enough they're earning more than my 727-200's and on par with my A320-200's...  Anyhow, up until now, they had zero hours logged, but I find they're four years old.

If I were to buy them out of the lease, would I be incurring maintenance expense in line with a never-used plane just out of the shrink-wrap, or a well-used four year-old plane?  Or a little of both?  Aaaaaand...would you even suggest buying them out of the lease if they're already four years old?