Originally Posted by
Expressflight
I would say that in general you don't have spare base availability but you do have spare fleet availability which you use to firefight any unservicability as and where it crops up. You should have no peak season major maintenance planned and routine work and allowable defect rectification would be carried out overnight by your line maintenance engineers, these being either in-house or contractors. That's how it was in my experience some time ago anyway.
So would it not make sense for Stobart Air to have their own maintenance bay in the big hangar with engineers certified on types to keep things moving. There have been too many delays the past few days due to technical which might lose customers returning another day.