Besides selling and scrapping, it is possible to store your aircraft for later use. This functionality is aimed at airlines who plan to use these aircraft later, but do not wish to pay unnecessary costs by letting them set idle on the ramp, or alternatively if these planes cannot be sold quickly.
If you keep a large number of aircraft idle at your bases you will start to incur parking fees. You can use the storage function to make these fees smaller. The parking fees will apply when you have more than 10 aircraft idle (no routes scheduled) at any given time. In addition to this you still need to pay insurance fees etc.
The benefit of using long-term storage is a much cheaper parking cost. However, getting aircraft back into operation from the storage takes more time. You also do not pay for any fleet commonality related costs or any insurance costs while the plane is stored.
Please note that, if you are leasing the aircraft, the leasing costs are charged normally even in storage!
Place In Storage
You may put aircraft into long-term storage individually or in groups.
Each aircraft that can be stored as the Store aircraft link at the aircraft details page, under the Manage Aircraft section (accessible by clicking the aircraft ID from the listing of the My Aircraft page). Alternatively, you can select multiple aircraft from the checkboxes at the My Aircraft page listing and use the Store aircraft selection from the dropdown menu at the bottom of that listing page.
The storing confirmation menu shows you the daily and monthly costs of long-term storage. By confirming storage, the aircraft is taken off any routes it is currently flying and is immediately sent into storage. The aircraft will be still visible in your fleet listings normally, but the aircraft will incur the small storage fee (under aircraft parking in income statement) but will not incur any staff, maintenance, commonality or insurance fees.
The aircraft won't be automatically maintained until you decide to remove it from long-term storage.
Remove From Storage
The removal from long-term storage can be done from the same menu, either for individual or multiple aircraft.
It takes some time to complete as the aircraft's maintenance checks must be brought up to date. For all aircraft allow at least 5 days and expect costs at least 1.2 times the normal cost of a B check. However, if some of the heavy C/D checks have expired then they must be done too and the length/cost of those heavy checks is included.
The costs are displayed to you before you confirm the action.
Also, aircraft may be scrapped directly from storage, if needed.
