Replacement planes for B-checks

[tavyturean]

I've read that a good strategy for when planes go through C-checks is to manually schedule them end to end and get a new plane that keeps operating the flights until the last check is over. Of course this becomes more difficult with each extra plane you get.
Because I am greedy, I wonder if there is a way to do that for B-checks. The problem is that micro-management is kind of impossible since a B-check is performed every 4 weeks, so that's every real-life 14 hours. Also this would mean having to re-schedule on a daily bases, as opposed to once every 10 days as with C-checks.
Do people here milk this last penny or do you just accept not running those routes once a month?

[gazzz0x2z]

This advice you did read is bad advice. Your time to play is limited, and you'd better spend it to more efficient outcomes, as optimizing your schedule, looking for new destinations, or managing your prices & seating. Noone amongst the big players is actually micromanaging C-Checks either. You can't when you fly 1200 birds. You just schedule them, and forget them 23 years, when you replace them.

[Talentz]

Um, if they do... I question there reasoning to use such free time for doing that.

Even retired persons have been things to do 



Talentz

[Tha_Ape]

You can do some heavy (C and D) micromanagement at the very start of your airline (1st two years, I'd say), or up until 50 planes or so, but after that forget it.
Even this micromanagement I mention usually doesn't mean a replacement plane for heavy checks, otherwise the cost of maintaining the plane when there's no C-check would offset the gain from having no idle route. For example I'd rather use it when I order a new plane and it so happens that it's (casually) when one of my planes enters a check.
In other words, it happens only when there is an opportunity, it's not planned, and it's only for heavy checks (not Bs).

[wilian.souza2]

The only reasonable case to replace an aircraft in maintenance is with D checks when your fleet and profit margins are small. I used to do it when my airline had less than 400 aircraft. When your airline has less than 100 aircraft and your profit margins are small, you can even temporarily set manual C-checks to control how many aircraft go to maintenance simultaneously throughout the year.

If you have a big fleet, or even not so big but your profit margins are high, you don't need to bother about how much revenue is being lost due to aircraft in maintenance.

[schro]

This advice you did read is bad advice. Your time to play is limited, and you'd better spend it to more efficient outcomes, as optimizing your schedule, looking for new destinations, or managing your prices & seating. Noone amongst the big players is actually micromanaging C-Checks either. You can't when you fly 1200 birds. You just schedule them, and forget them 23 years, when you replace them.

It's not even reasonable/doable to micromanage D checks at that size...

[knobbygb]

Well, I micro-manage all my D-checks (well, for Large and Very Large - not usually for turboprops), whatever the fleet size - right up 1000+ aircraft. I currently have 750 so that's just under two D-Checks per game-week or one every two real-time hours.  This strategy probably says something less that flattering about the interestingness of my life right now!  I tend to do them in blocks, so there are between 8 and 14 aircraft to re-schedule and send to D-Check each morning while I drink my coffee and try to wake up before doing the really serious stuff.

C and even B checks? Nah not even in the first few weeks of the game. HA - I just worked out that, with my fleet size now, rescheduling for even C Checks would be one every 16 minutes or 94 every morning. that's a LOT of coffee I'd have to make!