ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the various maintenance aspects that affect the planning and execution of the airline's operation. The Maintenance Organization consists of two organizations that are separated from each other namely, continuing airworthiness management organization and the maintenance and repair organization. A Maintenance Program is a complicated set of processes and instructions aimed at restoring reliability of the aircraft as it deteriorates due to 'wear and tear' or exposure to its environment. The reliability monitoring program should provide timely technical information to the operator so that changes can be made to restore the reliability of the aircraft when it deteriorates, and to meet the maintenance. Maintenance Planning departments have ways of manipulating the plan which usually result in a call to the Integrated operations centre with a request for a certain tail number on, perhaps, a 'lazy pattern' such as to conserve flying hours and/or cycles.
