Airlines must factor in the additional downtime and costs to transport aircraft or engines to distant MRO providers.
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Since the beginning of the new millennium, Western airlines have sent increasing numbers of aircraft, especially widebodies, outside their home regions for heavy maintenance, aiming to take advantage of lower labor rates in places such as Asia and Latin America. Toward the end of the last decade...
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