{"id":25559,"date":"2024-04-08T01:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-often-aircraft-maintained\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T01:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T15:17:36","slug":"careful-process-how-often-aircraft-are-maintained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=25559","title":{"rendered":"Careful Process: How Often Aircraft Are Maintained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            How often are <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aircraft-maintenance\/\">aircraft maintained<\/a>? The answer is complicated and depends on a variety of factors. Aircraft are finely tuned machines designed to fly safely over long distances without a hiccup. They are designed with backup systems and sometimes backups to those backups. Aircraft are exceedingly complicated machines &#8211; after all the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus-a380\/\">Airbus A380<\/a> has over a million parts. Airliners need a large workforce of engineers to maintain their aircraft (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qantasnewsroom.com.au\/roo-tales\/the-a-c-and-d-of-aircraft-maintenance\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Qantas<\/a> states that Qantas Engineering has over 3300 people to maintain its fleet). Scheduled aircraft maintenance provides <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/preventive-maintenance-advantages-list\/\">the obvious benefits of preventative maintenance<\/a>, allowing airlines to fix their aircraft before they break down &#8211; leading to downtime or worse.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft maintenance ranges from daily pre-flight checks to complete overhauls every 6 or so years, almost transforming an aircraft into a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2102,595,7450,941],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-maintenance","category-aviation-news","category-checks","category-maintenance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25570,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559\/revisions\/25570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}