Hello! I am doing an internship at a company that provides MRO
Services (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) to commercial airlines.

I have to determine where the aircraft of specific airlines (mainly
Low-Cost-Carrier) in the Asia-Pacific region stay overnight, because
this is the time when maintenance work is normally done. The aircraft
don't have to be individually identified by tailsign (of course, this
would be best), but I need the _exact_ number of aircraft of the
airline staying overnight at the
airport and if possible their type (like A320-200) during one week.
The information has to be up to date.

Where can I find this information? A database would be perfect, but I
will accept step-by-step instructions, as long as the time needed to
execute them is reasonable (30 minutes per airline maximum).

I have already tried to figure this question out by going through the
flight schedules and search for latest and earliest flights, but they
do not supply exact and definite answers. Please understand that I
therefor cannot accept answers that are based on searching through
flight schedules. In addition, I have access to the ACAS and ATI
online (rati.com) database, so it is OK when information from these
sources is necessary.

Thank you very much for your help!

Hollender --

This information is best acquired from the airlines directly,
especially since a flight may or may not continue with the same
equipment (aircraft).  The airlines will also know when 100-hour and
other critical inspections are due.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Hello Omnivorous,

thank you for your comment. Unfortunateley I am not allowed to contact
the airlines directly, because this could affect the status of several
negotiations my company is involved in right now with other airlines.
In addition, the headquarter of the company must not get to know that
the business unit I work for is researching this area of operations.
Sorry, I should have made this clear in my question.

Hollender

If you are not going to contact the airline themselves then I would
base it on the schedules they post on their website or provided
through OAG or ATI. You can use Excel to plot out where the aircraft
fly during the day. It will be a laborious job, but I can't see
another way of doing it without getting the information direct from
the airline.

I saw a mention of an aircraft maintenance conference for the Asia-Pacific Region:

The tenth annual ASIA-PACIFIC AIRLINE ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE Conference
9-10 June 2004
The Mutiara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.aviation-industryconferences.com/pages/conferences/32_asia_pacific.htm

Do you know anyone who may have attended this, or have you? Perhaps
the specific places where aircraft are maintained have been mentioned
here, and whoever attended that you know could tell you. A longshot,
but it could be something to start with. :)

techtor, I don't think that they would discuss such an issue at that
conference. The general philosophy of low cost airlines (particularly
in the UK and Europe) is to minimise the amount out-stations and
return aircraft to main bases at night.

@brabazon: Thank you for the input, but that was what I already tried.
It unfortunateley does not work.

@techtor: Thank you as well for this idea. I have a listing of
capabilities of MRO providers and the airlines themselve, but that
does not lead to the desired result: My target is to find out where
NEW capabilities could be successfull.

--
I appreciate your input, people! Have a nice day and thank you again!

If you are not allowed to contact individual airlines - how about
contacing the airport authorities in major airports.  They should be
able to give you some info overnight airline stop at the airport.  You
want to do this officially under your employer's name though because
of all the terrorist fear etc.

Hope this help

hello Hollender,
well I am writing to you from Singapore, pretty much the heart of asia pacific. 
there is only one budget carrier which is pretty much making all the
headlines..i.e airasia, it is based in KL and as far as I know..it's
hub is KL, if you look at their flight schedule they all fly back to
KL in night. ( as far as I remember, they have 17 boeing 737-200 with
seating capacity of 148). I once saw in a TV interview the CEO Mr Tony
Fernades talking about how he exactly remebers all the prices of spare
parts for his plane,
"In July 2002, AirAsia signed a US$20 million agreement with GE
Engineering Services for engine maintenance and later in the month, a
US$3million aircraft engine and aircraft frame parts leasing agreement
with VolvoAero. AirAsia also recently signed a US$7 million agreement
with ST Aero, covering the airline's engineering components support
for seven years."
hope this helps...I dont really know about the other 2 carriers in
Australia..i.e virging blue and jetstar, both have concentrated only
on aussi domestic market.
Indonesia has one carrier called "Lion Air" which operates turbo props.
In Singapore only one airline has started ..i.e. I really dont know
whether it is still flying!! ( i think it's called value air and it's
owned by a former SIA executive).. hope this helps

Here is a list of Asia-Pacific low cost airlines and their websites:
http://www.discountairfares.com/lcostaus.htm