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Originally Posted by HF3000
Can anyone explain why it is financially beneficial for a LCC to turn over an aircraft every 10 years but not financially beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same?
Careful what you wish for.
It IS beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same.
Provided they get rid of all the service elements that support the older aircraft - smaller maintenance team, smaller tech team, smaller everything i.e they need to "get rid" of vast numbers of people working in the "old way".
When things go wrong, it's amazing how often the "old way" of doing things gets them out of the deep hole they continually dig themselves trying to eradicate any form of legacy practices. Even new cars have to have old maintenance practices done on them at times.
Yes. Just ask Team A380 how little maintenance they do on their aircraft. They require more people on a transit than a 747. More things go wrong with the highly "advanced" systems and continual failures of the electronic seats and gizmos at the front of the aeroplane.
That costs them redundancy money so I guess it's not absolutely as beneficial but in the long run that's where they will head. Numbers will be wound down and many positions will go the way of manual telephone exchange operators - tens of people replaced with just one and an automated system.
Yes, the level of service will decline even further than it is already. Management, short-term financial gain. Company, long-term pain.