The A400M should indeed require fewer maintenance inspections than current AT types (although I though the C check interval was 15 months?).
But will the spanner branch really allow that? Or will it be over serviced to death like most other RAF aircraft?
Some airlines allow a 25 minute turnround time for flights with fare paying passengers. Yet when I was flying the FunBus, the engineers at group were insisting on 2 hour turnrounds for something similar. Most of which was filling out all their infernal servicing paperwork and checking things which had just worked quite happily for the previous 5 hours.....