Perceptive analysis of the effect of proactive maintenance scheduling on maintenance costs and airline profitability: A case study of Turkish Airlines Technic case

The accelerated development trend that the industry is going through has created an intensively competitive environment between global airlines. Intense competition in the sector and the pronounced decline in profit rates have increased the importance of reducing expenses and costs, in addition to the management of incomes. Towards this aim, airlines implement various methods to reduce their own costs. Maintenance comprises one of the significant expenses incurred by airlines, while airlines adopt various approaches in their cost-reduction efforts, including general maintenance enhancement programs. It has been seen that some of these methods positively affect cost-reduction efforts that have begun to be implemented. Proactive maintenance planning, on the other hand, is considered one of the methods aimed at reducing maintenance costs and thus increasing airline profitability and is actively used by many airlines…Havacılık sektörünün içerisinden geçtiği yüksek ivmeli gelişim trendi, havayolları arasında yoğun bir rekabet ortamı oluşmasına sebep olmuştur. Sektörde gözlenen yoğun rekabet ve kar oranlarındaki büyük düşüşler asli gelirlere ilaveten gider ve maliyetlerin de düşürülmesinin önemini artırmıştır. Bu bağlamda tüm havayolları, kendi maliyetlerini düşürmek için çok çeşitli yöntemler denemekte ve uygulamaktadır. Bakım maliyetleri toplam maliyetlerin içerisinde önemli yere sahip maliyet kalemlerinden bir tanesidir. Diğer tüm maliyetler gibi bakım maliyetlerini düşürmek için de çeşitli yöntemler denenmektedir. Bu yöntemlerden bazılarının maliyetleri olumlu yönde etkilediği görülmüş ve uygulanmaya başlamıştır. Proaktif bakım planlaması bakım maliyetlerini düşürmeyi ve havayolu karlılığını artırmayı amaçlayan yöntemlerden bir tanesidir ve birçok havayolu tarafından aktif olarak kullanılmaktadır

Assessing the effect of proactive maintenance scheduling on maintenance costs and airline profitability: The case of Turkish Airlines Technic

This study mainly aims to examine the perception of Turkish Airlines Technic staff about the effect of proactive maintenance scheduling (PMS) on maintenance costs (MCs) and airline profitability(AP). Another purpose of the study is to reveal if perception of the staff changes according to demographic features and experience of the staff. As far as it is known, there is no direct study addressing the effects of PMS on MCs and airline profitability. The study is considered to be a first in this context. In the study, Turkish Airlines-THY was chosen as the company that was handled. The fact that the company has a separate special maintenance&repair group (Turkish Airlines Technic-THYT) was effective in the selection of this company. Some additional qualifications (very rooted, with corporate governance, Turkey's top largest&full service carrier, member of IATA and Star Alliance, and a listed company (in BIST) were also among other factors affecting the selection. Methodologically, it was used a quantitative survey with a sample of 133 THYT staff. Staff has been chosen among departments that takes place actively/directly in maintenance. Besides questions that aim to measure the perception of THYT staff on the effects of PMS to MCs and AP, some demographic and experience related questions were asked in order to find out if perception of the staff changes according to their qualifications. The data were collected by online survey method and analyzed with SPSS version 22. Necessary tests together with Chi-square and Fisher’s tests were carried out to analyze the results. It was concluded that there is a strong correlation between PMS and the MCs. The study proved that PMS has a great decreasing effect on MCs and a great increasing effect on AP. The study also revealed that THYT personnel is like-minded that PMS reduces MCs and increases AP as well

The effect of aircraft maintenance scheduling to maintenance costs and airline profitability: Turkish Airlines case

In recent years, it has been observed that there is a very intense and fierce competition among airline companies in the airline industry all over the world. It is a fact that the importance of financial management, which is mostly based on reducing expenses and increasing revenues, in addition to other multidimensional issues, has increased tremendously for these companies in order to maintain their activity and sustainability. Airlines have had to look for ways to reduce their overall costs and increase their profitability. In addition, the Corona period we have been going through, as a force major negative factor, has further increased the importance of this search for companies. In the civil aviation industry, continuity of airworthiness and maintenance costs constitute a large portion of total airline expenses. In this study, the effect of proactive aircraft maintenance scheduling on the maintenance costs and airline profitability is examined. In the study, Turkish Airlines (THY) was chosen as the company that was handled. The fact that the company has a separate special maintenance and repair group (Turkish Technic) was effective in the selection of this company. In addition, some additional qualifications (very rooted, with corporate governance, Turkey's top largest airline, full service carrier airline, member of IATA and the global airline confederation-Star Alliance, and a publicly traded/listed company (Borsa Istanbul-BIST) were also among other factors in selection of the company. Methodologically, the survey method was used to collect the data. The survey was performed on 150 Turkish Technic personnel who actively/directly take place in aircraft maintenance and scheduling such as aircraft maintenance technicians, maintenance planning clerks/experts, supervisors, chiefs and managers. The SPSS-22 version was used to analyze the data, including the necessary tests. It was concluded that there is a strong correlation between maintenance scheduling and the maintenance costs. The study revealed that a proper maintenance planning greatly affects maintenance costs. It is also found that a proactive approach to the maintenance scheduling and planning has a positive effect on decreasing the maintenance costs. Furthermore, the study indicated that aircraft maintenance scheduling affects airline profitability in a positive way as well

Assessing the effect of proactive maintenance scheduling on maintenance costs and airline profitability: The case of Turkish Airlines Technic

This study mainly aims to examine the perception of Turkish Airlines Technic staff about the effect of proactive maintenance scheduling (PMS) on maintenance costs (MCs) and airline profitability (AP). Another purpose of the study is to reveal if the perception of the staff changes according to the demographic features and experience of the staff. As far as it is known, there is no direct study addressing the effects of PMS on MCs and airline profitability. The study is considered to be a first in this context.  In the study, Turkish Airlines-THY was chosen as the company that was handled. The fact that the company has a separate special maintenance & repair group (Turkish Airlines Technic-THYT) was effective in the selection of this company. Some additional qualifications (very rooted, with corporate governance, Turkey's top largest & full-service carrier, member of IATA and Star Alliance, and a listed company (in BIST) were also among other factors affecting the selection. Methodologically, it was used a quantitative survey with a sample of 133 THYT staff. The staff has been chosen among departments that take place actively/directly in maintenance. Besides questions that aim to measure the perception of THYT staff on the effects of PMS on MCs and AP, some demographic and experience-related questions were asked in order to find out if the perception of the staff changes according to their qualifications. The data were collected by online survey method and analyzed with SPSS version 22. Necessary tests together with Chi-square and Fisher’s tests were carried out to analyze the results. It was concluded that there is a strong correlation between PMS and the MCs. The study proved that PMS has a great decreasing effect on MCs and a great increasing effect on AP. The study also revealed that THYT personnel is like-minded and that PMS reduces MCs and increases AP as well