Maintenance

[dobbs1996]

I think that the maintenance schedules of aircraft should be changed.
In real life an aircraft actually goes in for an A-check every 650 flying hours or every 2 months. It lasts approximately 5 hours.
The B-check is every 3-5 months and lasts only 12 hours not 24.
The C-check is every 15-18 months not every 12 months and lasts for 1-2 weeks.
There is also an IL-check which is every 48 months and lasts anything from 2-4 weeks.
The D-check is every 6-10 Years and lasts 4-6 weeks which is a max of 42 days and not 60.
I think that as the A and B-checks are too frequent they should be changes to the proper intervals.

[Sami]

The maintenance names and durations are different for each aircraft model, you did not mention which aircraft you are referring to here....

A check represents the small weekly check while B is a monthly check and C/D the heavier ones. The times and durations are a compromise between the huge variety of checks the planes have.

[tm07x]

Most of all it depends on how many people you have working on the AC.
Obviously bigger AC have longer checks. Which scale just fine for C and D checks in terms of time.
But none of the checks go any faster if you have hired 100.000 mechanics. Which makes no sense because it does change in real life.

Having A and B check times based on the size of the AC could work Sami?
4 categories perhaps? Light-Medium-Heavy-Very Heavy

And checks could be done faster by employing more people? Like how you order fuel contracts you could set the desired MX level.