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How age you consider that is necesary for sell or scrap an a/c?

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Hi I have a Embraer that is 2 years old , 2,835 cycles , and 5,378 airframe hour.
What age you consider that is better selling the aircraft because , more old aircraft=more maintainment cost.
I am not sure if replace it or wait until the a/c have 3 years old.
Please Help
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If it's just one aircraft, and you have less than 100 routes, then definitely keep it.
If you have a whole fleet that's 2-3 years old, then you'll want to start replacing it.


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It was only that Embraer .
Thank you voldermortt.
I really appreciate the help
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It was only that Embraer .
Thank you voldermortt.
I really appreciate the help

You're very welcome.
If you need any more help feel free to PM me.



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Reply #4 on: September 02, 2008, 02:57:30 am
I never scrap an aircraft. Say I have a 4 year old plane with say 80 seats newbs that dont have anyclue what they are doing will still pay good money when they see the same plane at 6 times the price. I know when i started I didn't think about maintanence costs. :D
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Reply #5 on: September 20, 2008, 08:38:35 am
I never scrap an aircraft. Say I have a 4 year old plane with say 80 seats newbs that dont have anyclue what they are doing will still pay good money when they see the same plane at 6 times the price. I know when i started I didn't think about maintanence costs. :D

What if it's something like a J61? There are hundreds on the open market, lots of which are at minimum price. I just scrapped 10 J61s as I couldn't sell them.
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Reply #6 on: September 21, 2008, 12:51:18 pm
How do you actually replace aircrafts? Closing and recreating hundreds of routes? Come on There must be a better way.


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Reply #7 on: September 21, 2008, 03:48:21 pm
How do you actually replace aircrafts? Closing and recreating hundreds of routes? Come on There must be a better way.

That is the only way right now. A better way will come in the future.
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Reply #8 on: September 21, 2008, 04:15:53 pm
How do you actually replace aircrafts? Closing and recreating hundreds of routes? Come on There must be a better way.

That is the only way right now. A better way will come in the future.
Will wait the future to arrive then. Thanks!


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Reply #9 on: October 02, 2008, 04:29:15 am
I actually I am getting rid of all regionals , I am replacing it with brand-new 737NG
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Reply #10 on: November 01, 2008, 08:37:08 pm
hi,

i also didn't know for maintenance cost of old planes.

is there any advice about tracking these costs per plane? or all of them appear on maintance fee page on finance?

when a plane is old ? is there any possibility of mechanical failure and plane grounded?

sorry but i haven't found any info about these parameters




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Reply #11 on: November 01, 2008, 09:54:28 pm
You can't see how much each plane costs for maintenance, just the fee for all of them together.
There are no random events like mechanical failures or groundings.


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Reply #12 on: November 08, 2008, 09:21:47 am
3 years.
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Reply #13 on: November 08, 2008, 08:56:38 pm
I have 10+ 777-200ERs which are about 7-8 years old and need replacing, but I'm just too lazy to replace them...  :roll:
I'm not sure how high their MX costs are, but they would be pretty big!
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