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[simonair]

Hi

 

I am a new player and I noticed that my maintenance cost pero plain is almost way higher than the numbers I see I into the aircraft Detail General Information. Is this normal?

[StyxDominion22]

For each "family" of aircraft that you own, there is a base maintenance cost that is higher than the maintenance cost for an individual plane. This base cost is present no matter how many planes of a family that you have. For example, owning any plane of the ATR family has a base cost of 800,000/mo. For this i recommend using many planes of the same family rather than many different families.

[RubberDuckGaming]

Not really sure what you're asking, but the maintenance cost may be different because of age. As an aircraft gets older, it becomes more costly to maintain. Everyone starts with a 3 year old airplane, which might be why you see a different cost for that one than on other planes.

[Turbulance]

Hello I am new here 

 

I notice even both Boeing family type makes difference too

 

Boeing 727 (Base Cost)$3,005,000564727-200(3) United Technologies JT8D-15A3.2 years$188,978Total Monthly Cost of Boeing 727 Fleet: $3,193,978

Boeing 737 Original (Base Cost)$3,127,500619737-200(2) United Technologies JT8D-15A0.1 years$187,656Total Monthly Cost of Boeing 737 Original Fleet: $3,315,156

[Alpha Waffle]

The base maintenance cost is 5% of the average aircraft price in that family that you own. So within that family (727, A320, etc) if you have 20 planes priced at $100,000,000 and 20 priced at $120,000,000, your base MX cost would be 5% of $110,000,000 or $5,500,000.

 

Ongoing maintenance costs are a little more opaque, but per month they are approximately 0.3% of the purchase price of the aircraft times 0.0048 ·A² + 0.002 ·A + 1, where A is the age of the aircraft in years to one decimal place. This means that aircraft maintenance costs increase quadratically with age, so while maintenance costs between a 2 and 3 year old aircraft won't be extreme, a 25 vs 26 year old aircraft can have a big gap in ongoing costs.