Managing D Checks

[SJF]

What do people do to manage D checks.

I find it's not too despairing for used aircraft as I always select ones that have a decent time before it's due and they don't all tend to come at once, but for new aircraft all becoming due at almost the same time is crippling my profits.

[groundbum2]

time to pay the devil, he wants his due.

If you've been buying new then the D checks should be spaced out at the delivery interval, 2 weeks for smaller aircraft and 4 weeks for larger aircraft. It's something you have to plan for, there's not a lot of wiggle room. If you find a route will have next to no service due to all it's planes being out on D checks at the same time, you could manually start a D check earlier so that plane is back before the others go. It's something to be planned for when buying aircraft.

As you get larger then D checks kinda disappear under the radar in terms of lost pax and maintenance expenses. You could keep a spare aircraft and swap the schedule of a plane about to go into D check to it. You could also lease a plane for a year to use as a swap.

Simon