Operation

The Fokker 70 is a very mature and reliable aircraft and it is optimized for high cycle operations. The total accumulated service experience for the Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 fleets is close to 10 million flight hours and landings. Initial operator experience on the Fokker 100 was incorporated in the design of the Fokker 70.

Fokker Services make continuous product improvements based on more recent operator feedback and any new regulations. Typically, most Fokker 70s have flown between 25,000 and 30,000 flight hours and landings, which is only a third of the 90,000 flight hours or desgn life cycles.

The structure is basically the same as that of the Fokker 100, which has been tested for at least 180,000 landings, ensuring very few structure-related inspection tasks and ADs in the future.

Based on favorable in-service experience many maintenance task intervals are currently in the process of being escalated for reduced maintenance costs.