Maintenance costs and scheduling

[redtails1]

How does one get away from such high maintenance costs?  Do I have to schedule the B check on the week that its due?  I seem to be getting charged way too much on weekly basis when I have the B check permanently scheduled on Route Schedule... 

[pndsc]

Permanently scheduled?

B checks only need to be done once a month.

[minerva]

Your maintenance costs can't be reduced except by buying newer and/or more aircraft (and then it is a relative decrease).  They are the cost of business.  The bigger problem you have is that you can't make money in a regular AWS gameworld using planes with 20 or fewer seats.  Its been tried by amongst the most experienced of players -- Swiftus for instance documented the attempt extensively (check the forum logs for his blow by blow account). I'd re-consider your strategy.

[redtails1]

Thanks guys, I'll try that 

[AndiD]

Your maintenance costs can't be reduced except by buying newer and/or more aircraft (and then it is a relative decrease).  They are the cost of business.  The bigger problem you have is that you can't make money in a regular AWS gameworld using planes with 20 or fewer seats.  Its been tried by amongst the most experienced of players -- Swiftus for instance documented the attempt extensively (check the forum logs for his blow by blow account). I'd re-consider your strategy.

I'm making tons of money (5-7% profit margin per quarter, or 3m/year) with eight 18 seaters in DoTM, which interestingly was my first attempt of an airline in a regular AWS world, and I made quite a few mistakes in the beginning. So it is possible after all, even without perfect play.

[Troxartas86]

Ive used the Fairchild Metro III before and it didn't kill me, though only as a side project.