747-400 maintenance cost analysis, Issue 17 Jun/Jul 2001
Issue 17 Jun/Jul 2001
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The 747-100/-200 have been dogged by a series of major ADs that
escalated their maintenance. In some cases, man-hour inputs in D checks
were twice the standard level. The 747-400 does not have these problems
and delivers stable and predictable maintenance costs.