Hello, all. I apologize for the less than fully descriptive title. Anyway. I have a question about staying at or below 3 maintenance categories. I'm getting to the point where I am considering starting a regional airline so I can transfer my RJs to the regional and free up a maintenance slot for my main airline. My plan is to buy the RJs and then transfer them to the regional airline, and then lease a wide body for my main airline. I know that if I own the aircraft and lease them to someone else, it'll still be on my property books as owning the aircraft. Would this affect the maintenance categories? I want to try to keep the count to 3 in order to save costs. I'm a little tired, so I apologize if this doesn't make sense. Let me know if you need more info. Thanks in advance, though!
No problems. The 3 is based on number of aircraft types OPERATED. Therefore, if you lease out all your regional jets, they will not count to your 3
Thank you!