Maintenance

[SAO]

Hello

I have replaced almost my entire fleet with new planes (bringing average fleet age from about 4 years to 1.3 years) in the past while. However, my maintenance costs have continued to increase.

I am wondering if maintenance costs have anything to do with fleet age, or solely with fleet size. As well, any tips to reduce these costs would be appreciated (if there are any).

Thanks!

[StephenM]

Hi there,

The existing maintenance formula does not react well to large purchases, or high value aircraft. You may see spikes in maintenance costs as this happen. You are on the right track by reducing your average fleet age. The game takes your entire fleet as an average when calculating costs, it will not look at specifics. That way a big order being delivered can send maintenance costs shooting up despite the fact these are new planes where you would otherwise expect low maintenance costs on them.

Watch out for a public world with the new maintenance cost attached to it, we will test it out in a public beta soon.