How Many Deferrals is "Normal" at your Shop?
 

What's a typical number of maintenance deferrals you can expect on any given flight? What would you consider a lot?

0 is normal. 2 or 3 is a lot.

Zero to one is normal. Bearing in mind that the majority are cabin deferrals (seat-back, foot rest, seat power, lav sink, etc).

Three would be a lot. Anything more than that is typically piggy-backs, required by other deferrals.

Thanks. Excluding cabin/nef deferrals, we're routinely well in excess of those numbers.

2-3 on average, but it has gotten worse lately. I flew one with 13 the other day, including NEFs and CDLs.

Come to Brown where 10 is common. Some are nothing burgers like broken locks or lights in the back, but many are more interesting like pneumatic, autopilot/throttles, fuel system, APU, ACARS, or external parts of the aircraft missing. It gets to the point where you can have multiple ECAM messages that your should ignore while hopefully catching the ones that are a “new” problem to be dealt with. Life’s an adventure, especially here.

Sounds really familiar! Trying to piece all the interacting deferrals together for their operational impacts becomes a project.

I'm curious , who do you fly for?

Jolly Fats Weehawkin.

This is also accurate for United