Maintenance Center Profits

[joefremont]

Regarding Maintenance Center Profits: Why do VA's keep giving away service to other airlines for free? By offering service to anyone and everyone at 25% they are making $0 money on the jobs. I mean I don't mind, as it gives me no incentive to build and maintain my own maintenance center in my little personal Michigan charter operation.

I agree. I see so many VA's who have built many maintenance centers and set the prices so low, they are not making any profit, in fact loosing a ton of money, yet because there price is so low, nobody is making any money. Makes me think that at least for 'other airlines' there should be a minimum price greater than 25%, maybe as least as 50%.

[Cat]

Yup, at the risk of cutting my own business ... LOL I would suggest 35% floor for partner airlines and 50% for other airlines. Can only do it for "cost" for your own airplanes. That would give at least some incentive for people to get their own centers.