IDLE AIRCRAFT

[fxtorres]

Hi

My Boeings start to need D checks and they are going to be out of service for 60 days!

Do you experienced players think it is worth to have had some Boeings idle previously, and use them during the D checks?

(I'm not sure if I explained myself properly... English is not my mother tongue  )

Thanx in advance!

[Cardinal]

There has been some debate on this in the past, but I tend to swap out planes for D-check.

If you are still growing your airline, I suggest ordering planes as usual but instead of scheduling new routes to the new planes, swap the existing routes of a plane nearing D-check over to an incoming new (or used) plane and then send the old plane to the hangar. When it gets to within a few days of finishing its maintenance cycle, you can schedule new routes to it so it starts flying as soon as it is able to. (Just make sure you don't schedule new routes more than 14 days before the end of maintenance or you will forfeit the new slots.) But it's much better to have existing, established routes continue to fly for those 60 days than flying new routes during that time while the established routes get cancelled for 60 days.

If you are not in a growth phase, just get one or two extra planes and swap out as needed. If possible, lease them from the used market for just enough time to cover the D-checks, then let the leases expire.

[schro]

tvdan1043 says it quite well.

The other thing to consider, is if you're leasing a fleet type that is easy to find on the used market, then dumping it back to the leasor and leasing a new one would be better for you overall. If it is hard plane to find, you may not be able to do that.

Also, to add, once you get to a few hundred planes in the fleet, you really won't have the time to micromanage replacing lost revenue from planes in a D check. It's just too tedious at that point (especially when you have over 1000 planes....)

[fxtorres]

Thank you!

I have now over 300 planes, and I'm feeling the only thing I can do is just managing the fleet, trying to send the aircraft to their D-checks and re-scheduling to new planes. But, at the end of the day, there is no growth. The flow of new aircraft is not fast enough, so I can only use them to fly the routes of other planes in the hangar.

It has been several months since my airline has not had a growth in passengers as I cannot plan new routes