Well to be honest, Short range Cargo flights in a 747 are more common in the real world than we would think (Apparently a 747 flies from EGSS to EGCC on a fairly regular basis, not sure, I think it is Dragon Air Cargo) but there are a number of projects ongoing at the moment Andy and it will be a while before this gets rectified. I guess this where we have problems when people spend vast sums of money on 3rd party aircraft like the PMDG 747, we have to try and cater for them but for now, we are strapped for time... It is on the list though Andy

As Dom mentioned above, the 747 is really a long range aircraft as is the A340, A380, 787 and MD11 and as such, we would like to keep these planes in the fleet with that element of realism. We will however endeavor to add the maintenance flights in for all the divisions when we get chance.