SIA Engineering Company

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checks are performed on a flight hour basis or a calendar system basis whichever is earlier. A cut in number of plane flight will do little harm to MRO revenue.

The easiest way to skip the check is perhaps to decommission the plane but this is applicable only for the old plane. This can be a normal practice as D check is often very expensive in comparison to the existing value of the aircraft.

For as long as the airplane don't fly (grounded) they can skip the inspection. but how long can the firm be doing so, given that this plane does not comes cheap and that they still have to record a depreciation expense for it? Aircrafts are depreciated over 15 years period for SIA, which means that grounding it for a year or 2 represent a 6-12% loss in terms of ROI for that particular aircraft. This is not forgetting that when they decide to deground it, it has to undergo all these previous checks before it can do so.

Let's face the fact that grounding airplane has limited impact to the company profitability as compared to cutting the number of flights. The major cost to the airline are fuel cost and staff cost. Grounding the airplane only help in skipping the inspection cost temporarily but the airplane still has to be maintained by their own fleet of engineers unless they planned to decommission the plane completely. Grounding airplanes also mean additional strain on the existing fleet.

FYI, in the previous GFC 2008, a total of 5% of global aircraft get grounded.

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SIA Engineering Company - by Musicwhiz - 18-09-2010, 08:53 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yeokiwi - 20-09-2010, 07:08 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yeokiwi - 20-09-2010, 06:32 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yeokiwi - 21-09-2010, 07:04 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by pianist - 26-09-2010, 09:03 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 06-10-2010, 05:57 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 03-11-2010, 04:59 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 10-11-2010, 10:16 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 10-11-2010, 10:33 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 11-11-2010, 01:21 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by freedom - 31-03-2011, 07:43 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 19-04-2011, 03:25 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 19-04-2011, 04:02 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yaosheng - 10-05-2011, 06:56 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by hongonn - 10-05-2011, 07:20 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 11-05-2011, 01:15 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by wsreader - 07-06-2011, 08:47 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 07-06-2011, 09:21 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Nick - 08-06-2011, 04:42 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yeokiwi - 20-09-2011, 09:12 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by piggo - 20-09-2011, 09:56 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by edragon - 28-10-2011, 11:09 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by changwk - 29-10-2011, 11:32 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by arthur - 11-12-2011, 08:16 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by hongonn - 31-01-2012, 08:01 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by arthur - 31-01-2012, 09:12 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by csl123 - 03-02-2012, 09:26 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 03-02-2012, 09:53 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by csl123 - 04-02-2012, 12:41 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 18-02-2012, 12:29 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 18-02-2012, 10:49 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 18-02-2012, 12:13 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 18-02-2012, 12:36 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 20-02-2012, 06:48 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 03-02-2012, 01:44 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by freedom - 04-02-2012, 09:35 AM
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RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by csl123 - 06-02-2012, 09:57 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 16-02-2012, 05:45 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Drizzt - 06-03-2012, 04:43 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by ngcheeki - 06-03-2012, 07:05 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Drizzt - 06-03-2012, 07:33 PM
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RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by KopiKat - 07-03-2012, 07:48 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by KopiKat - 07-05-2012, 08:53 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 07-03-2012, 11:42 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by KopiKat - 07-03-2012, 12:19 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Drizzt - 07-03-2012, 12:42 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by freedom - 07-03-2012, 12:45 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by hongonn - 07-03-2012, 02:57 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by KopiKat - 07-03-2012, 03:16 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by cif5000 - 07-03-2012, 03:28 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by freedom - 07-03-2012, 03:15 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by setan - 07-03-2012, 04:05 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by weijian - 17-03-2012, 04:19 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yogi - 25-03-2012, 11:10 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by cif5000 - 25-03-2012, 11:35 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by weijian - 18-03-2012, 09:10 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yogi - 26-03-2012, 12:26 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Nick - 26-03-2012, 10:27 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 09-05-2012, 11:19 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yogi - 01-04-2012, 06:22 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 01-04-2012, 06:42 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by shanrui_91 - 01-04-2012, 10:43 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Drizzt - 08-05-2012, 07:15 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Drizzt - 08-05-2012, 10:12 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by Jon-san - 20-07-2012, 01:37 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by weijian - 28-07-2012, 12:21 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yeokiwi - 29-07-2012, 10:33 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by hongonn - 03-08-2012, 12:03 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by yeokiwi - 03-08-2012, 06:56 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by nitro - 13-08-2012, 08:53 PM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by csl123 - 31-10-2012, 12:33 AM
RE: SIA Engineering Company Limited - by FFNow - 24-01-2013, 03:00 PM
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