Aircraft Maintenance Planning - An Overview

Maintenance planning is one of the important features of Maintenance & Engineering Organization. The role of planning function is to ensure availability of aircraft to meet operational needs, as well as schedule maintenance activities for an aircraft.

Maintenance activities are scheduled for execution taking into account various constraints such as the ground time available, schedule limits, man power, resource availability and execution center capacity and capability.

The planner will maintain a fleet-wise visibility of current maintenance needs of various aircraft and also identify a specific aircraft for which detailed planning needs to be performed.

Planners can also generate the Aircraft Maintenance Due report to track, monitor and schedule  maintenance of aircraft.

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