Fleet Care Program at Treviso Antonio Canova (LIPH)
Twelve-month appearance plans for fleets operating from the Venice low-cost gateway
The Fleet Care Program at Treviso Antonio Canova gives charter operators and corporate flight departments a twelve-month appearance schedule built around the flight calendar: quick turns between legs, monthly cabin deep cleans, seasonal exterior work and brightwork correction, all under a fixed monthly invoice per tail. Treviso sits 59 ft above sea level and 3 km from the city centre—31 km from Venice—and because the airport serves as the low-cost gateway to the Venice tourist system, demand mirrors the Venetian calendar. We allocate a dedicated crew, maintain service history with photographs, and guarantee priority access for AOG requests, so your aircraft stay presentable without disrupting charter availability or corporate movement.
07/25 · 2420 m
AIP and airport data59 ft
3 km
Treviso city centre (Venice about 31 km)Why does a fleet programme make sense at Treviso?
Charter operators working the Venice corridor and corporate departments using Treviso as a seasonal or year-round base face predictable wear: cabin traffic from back-to-back legs, Adriatic salt carried inland on the breeze, and the fine particulate that settles on parked aircraft between morning positioning and evening return. One-off cleans address symptoms; a twelve-month programme addresses rhythm.
The Fleet Care Program locks in a service calendar that follows your operations tempo. Quick turns happen airside between legs when the aircraft has forty minutes on stand. Monthly interior deep cleans are scheduled during longer gaps—overnight stops or maintenance windows—so galley, lav, and soft goods receive attention without cutting into charter availability. Seasonal exteriors and brightwork correction align with the shoulder months when flight activity dips and you want the paint refreshed before high season returns. One invoice per tail, one contact for scheduling changes, and a quarterly review with your ops team to adjust the calendar if your route structure shifts.
What changes at Treviso Antonio Canova that affects fleet appearance work?
Treviso operates a single runway, 07/25, at 2420 metres, and elevation is 59 ft, so summer density altitude rarely constrains departures but does mean warmer ramp temperatures under direct sun. The airport is managed by AerTre—80 per cent owned by SAVE, which runs Venice Marco Polo—and the two fields sit about 20 km apart. Because Treviso functions as the low-cost gateway to Venice, passenger traffic and hence ramp activity follow the Venetian tourist calendar: high season runs late spring through early autumn, shoulder months see lighter movements, and winter is quieter still.
For fleet work, that seasonality matters. Summer means more frequent quick turns, higher cabin soil rates, and hotter leading edges that benefit from rinseless wash rather than waiting for evening cool-down. Winter offers longer windows for exterior polish and decon, and the lower traffic density makes it easier to position the aircraft on a stand near a GPU without competing for apron real estate. Customs and Guardia di Finanza are on site, so extra-EU repositioning flights clear here without diversion, which simplifies scheduling if part of your fleet operates intra-Europe and part flies further afield.
How do you schedule work around an active charter or corporate calendar?
The programme starts with a service calendar built from your flight schedule. You share the ops plan—departure slots, overnight stops, maintenance days, peak charter weeks—and we map quick turns, monthly interiors, and seasonal exteriors into the gaps. Quick turns are airside: we meet the aircraft on stand, perform a dry wash or rinseless exterior and a cabin tidy while the pilots file the next leg, and you push back on time. Monthly interiors happen during longer breaks: if the aircraft overnights at Treviso or you have a maintenance window, we book a slot for galley detail, lav decon, vacuum, leather feed, and glass polish. Seasonal exteriors—wash, single-stage polish, brightwork correction, belly and gear-bay clean—are scheduled during shoulder weeks when the aircraft sits for two or three days.
If the schedule changes, you call one contact. If an AOG or an unplanned diversion puts the aircraft at Treviso and it needs a quick exterior before the next leg, the programme guarantees priority crew allocation. Every visit generates a service record and photographs, so you have a visual history for pre-purchase inspection prep or to show the owner that the cabin has been maintained to standard. The quarterly review lets you adjust frequency—more quick turns in summer, fewer in winter—without renegotiating the contract.
What does the fixed monthly budget cover, and what sits outside it?
Each tail in the programme carries a fixed monthly fee that covers the agreed service calendar: the number of quick turns, the monthly interior deep clean, and the seasonal exterior and brightwork sessions planned for that twelve-month period. The budget includes labour, materials—cleaning chemistry, microfibre, polish, wax—and service documentation with photographs. It also includes priority AOG cover: if you call with an unscheduled request and we have crew available, you move to the front of the queue without a surcharge, though the work itself may be invoiced separately if it falls outside the calendar.
What sits outside: major paint correction beyond single-stage polish, such as wet-sanding of oxidation or cheat-line respray; full interior refurbishment or re-trimming of cabin panels; and work required because of operational damage—hydraulic-fluid spill, lav-service staining, leading-edge impact that needs filler. These are quoted separately. The point of the fixed budget is predictability: your finance team knows the monthly appearance cost per tail, and your ops team knows the aircraft will be clean without chasing quotes or coordinating ad-hoc bookings every time you return to Treviso.
What do handling agents at Treviso expect when a third-party detailing crew works airside?
Handling agents present at the airport expect the detailing crew to arrive with current airside passes, to coordinate through the handler's duty desk for stand access, and to respect the handler's timeline if a GPU or tow is involved. We carry our own passes, notify the handler twenty-four hours before each scheduled visit, and confirm stand assignment and aircraft availability on the morning of the service. If the quick turn is between legs, we coordinate with the ground crew so that refuelling, catering, and our wash happen in sequence without delaying pushback.
Because Treviso is an international airport of entry with Customs and Guardia di Finanza on site, extra-EU arrivals sometimes require the aircraft to remain on a specific stand until clearance is complete. If your flight is inbound from outside the Schengen area, we wait for the all-clear from the handler before approaching the aircraft. For cabin work, we follow the handler's rules on waste disposal—blue-water service, galley trash—and we never open avionics bays or remove cowls without the flight crew or a maintenance engineer present. The handler's ground-safety briefing is law; we follow it, and we expect your crew to tell us if there is anything non-standard about the aircraft or the stand.
How does the quarterly review keep the programme aligned with your operations?
Every three months we sit down—in person at Treviso or by video—with your ops manager, chief pilot, or fleet coordinator and review the service history: which visits happened on schedule, which were moved because of flight changes, what the aircraft condition looked like in the photographs, and whether the frequency is still correct. If summer charter activity was heavier than forecast and the cabin is taking more soil, we increase the quick-turn frequency for the next quarter. If winter repositioning means the aircraft spends more time at another base, we reduce the Treviso calendar and adjust the monthly budget.
The review also covers upcoming needs: if you are adding a tail to the certificate, we slot it into the programme; if you are planning a pre-sale inspection in six months, we schedule a full exterior correction and cabin detail beforehand so the aircraft shows well. The programme is a twelve-month contract, but it is not rigid. Operations change, and the calendar changes with them. The review ensures that what you are paying for matches what you are flying, and that the aircraft appearance supports your commercial or corporate mission rather than running on autopilot.
Questions operators ask about Fleet Care Program at Treviso Antonio Canova
Can we add or remove aircraft from the programme mid-contract?
Yes; we adjust the calendar and the monthly invoice at the next quarterly review or immediately if you need faster changes. Fleets grow and shrink. If you acquire another tail or move one to a different base, we update the programme at the next quarterly review, or sooner if the change is urgent. The monthly budget adjusts to reflect the new number of aircraft, and we build a service calendar for the additional tail. Removing an aircraft works the same way: the calendar stops, the invoice drops, and any pre-paid balance is credited or refunded.
What happens if we cancel a scheduled service because the aircraft diverts?
We reschedule the visit to the next available gap in your flight plan without penalty. Diversions, weather, and maintenance surprises are part of flight operations. If a scheduled interior or exterior session cannot happen because the aircraft is not at Treviso, you call the contact number and we move the booking to the next available window. There is no cancellation fee; the programme is designed around real-world ops, and we hold the calendar slot flexible until you confirm the aircraft is on stand.
Do you work overnight, or only during daylight hours?
We work both; quick turns happen whenever the aircraft lands, and longer sessions are scheduled to suit your overnight or maintenance windows. Quick turns are timed to the flight: if you land at Treviso at 22:00 and depart at 06:00, we meet the aircraft on arrival and complete the cabin tidy and exterior dry wash overnight. Monthly interiors and seasonal exteriors are usually daytime work because we need good light for inspection and photography, but if your maintenance window or crew-rest rules require night work, we can arrange it. The programme calendar is built around your schedule, not ours.
Is the programme available for light jets and turboprops, or only larger aircraft?
The programme is designed for super-midsize and larger jets; light aircraft can join only if they are part of a fleet already in the programme. We focus on super-midsize to ultra-long-range business jets and ACJ or BBJ aircraft. Light jets and turboprops are accepted only when they operate within a fleet that already includes larger aircraft under the programme, because the service calendar and crew allocation are scaled for bigger cabins and longer exterior work. If your fleet is entirely light iron, a programme may not be the most efficient structure, and we will suggest a different arrangement.
What kind of service history and photos do we receive?
After every visit you receive a digital report with dated photographs, work performed, materials used, and any notes on condition. Each service generates a report: date, tail number, work performed—quick turn, monthly interior, seasonal exterior—materials used, time on stand, and photographs of the aircraft before and after. The photos cover exterior panels, leading edges, belly, cabin high-touch areas, galley, and lav. The report goes to your ops email within twenty-four hours, and we keep a master file so that at year-end or for pre-purchase inspection you have a complete visual and written record of every appearance intervention.
Can we request additional work outside the programme calendar without losing priority access?
Yes; additional work is quoted separately, and programme aircraft still receive priority crew allocation if we have availability. The programme calendar covers the agreed rhythm of quick turns, monthly interiors, and seasonal exteriors. If you need something extra—an unscheduled wash before a charter client inspection, a brightwork correction after a bird strike, a galley deep-clean following a catering spill—you request a quote. Programme aircraft receive priority crew allocation, so if we have a team available, your request moves ahead of non-programme one-offs. The extra work is invoiced separately and does not affect the fixed monthly budget unless you want to fold it into the next quarter's calendar during the review.
Does Terso hold insurance that covers our aircraft while you are working on it?
Yes; we carry liability insurance for third-party aircraft, and we can provide a certificate of currency before the programme starts. We hold public and products liability insurance that covers damage to customer aircraft during detailing operations. The policy includes coverage for ramp work, cabin work, and chemical application. Before the programme starts, we provide your flight department or legal team with a certificate of currency and details of the insurer. If your company requires us to be named on your hull policy or to carry higher limits, we will coordinate with our broker to arrange it.
How far in advance do we need to share the flight schedule for you to build the service calendar?
Ideally, we receive a rolling four-week schedule, updated weekly, so we can allocate crew and coordinate with handlers. A rolling four-week flight schedule, updated every week, gives us enough lead time to allocate crew, confirm stand access with the handler, and order materials if a seasonal exterior is coming up. If your ops plan is less predictable—charter demand changes daily, or you fly ad-hoc owner trips—we work with shorter notice, but quick turns may require same-day confirmation. The more visibility we have, the smoother the coordination, and the less chance of a scheduling clash on the ramp.
Can the programme cover multiple bases, or only Treviso?
The programme can cover multiple Italian and European bases if your fleet moves between them regularly; we build a multi-site calendar and adjust the budget accordingly. If your fleet operates a circuit—Treviso, Milan, Geneva, Nice—we can structure a multi-base programme with service calendars at each field and a single monthly invoice. Crew allocation and handler coordination happen locally at each airport, and the quarterly review covers all bases so you see the full fleet picture. The fixed monthly budget scales with the number of bases and the frequency of service at each, but the principle is the same: one contact, one invoice, predictable appearance support wherever the aircraft operate.
What is the minimum fleet size for the programme to make sense?
Two aircraft is the practical minimum; single-tail operators usually find ad-hoc scheduling more efficient unless the aircraft is based at Treviso year-round. The programme is designed for fleets: charter operators with multiple aircraft, corporate flight departments managing two or more tails, or FBOs offering fleet services to clients. A single aircraft can join if it is based at Treviso full-time and flies often enough to justify a monthly calendar, but most single-tail operators find that ad-hoc bookings—call when you need a clean—are simpler and cheaper. Two aircraft is the practical threshold where a fixed monthly budget and a shared service calendar start to deliver value over one-off coordination.