1. A method for managing an aircraft maintenance program for an aircraft operated by an operator, the method comprising: extracting maintenance tasks for the aircraft from at least one aircraft maintenance document, each maintenance task having a control point which specifies an interval at which the maintenance task is to be performed; sorting the maintenance tasks into initial maintenance task groups having common control points; guiding the airline operator to organize the maintenance tasks and initial maintenance task groups into a plurality of maintenance task groups; and guiding the airline operator in assigning user-specified control points for each of the plurality of maintenance task groups.