Maintenance and Modifications
Torqued: Repair stations argue customers aren’t being charged enough
Face it: maintenance providers don’t charge enough for what they do.

Face it: maintenance providers don’t charge enough for what they do. Pilots complain about being charged $65 an hour for corporate jet maintenance and then gladly pay $90 an hour to get their Lexus fixed.

“Let’s be realistic about this,” Sarah MacLeod, president of the Aeronautical Repair Station Association, told AIN. “Airplanes are more complicated than cars, they are highly regulated, there are enormous liability issues and the technician literally puts his career on the line with each signature. Operators should be paying more for maintenance, but unfortunately we don’t have cost standards in this industry.”

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