Engineers to Aircraft ratio
I would like to find out the ratio of Line Maintenance Engineers to aircraft in various airlines.
In this way we could compare both airlines (with similar types) and aircraft.
This is for a college project I'm doing.
I'll start. (no prizes for guessing which airline I work for.)
Fleet = 25 AVRO RJ's
Engineers on the line (including A task approved) = 72
Bases manned = 5
Scope = Line maint up to and inc A check.
Other info = 3rd party maint in 5 outstations, 7 nightstoppers total.
There seems to be a rule of thumb that it takes 4 line maintenance employees per aircraft to operate a Bae 146 but only 3 for an Avro RJ.
By Maintenence employee's I mean the line Engineers and the support guys, such as maintenance control, managers, stores, admin etc.
I don't know where the figures come from but it's probably a marketing ploy from BAE asset management to shift used RJ's based on the maintenance schedule and improved reliability.