This paper presents maintenance scheduling sensitivity studies for both demand and unit availability variations; three types of demand variations are considered. Also, sensitivity to system model simplifications is discussed. These simplifications include reduced demand representation, single unit availabilities, and the use of availability-modified reserves as the main component of the optimality criterion for generator maintenance scheduling. All the sensitivity studies are numerically done on a real power thermal generating system, whose main data are given in an Appendix. The obtained results demonstrate that model simplifications can be performed for speedy scheduling algorithms without great loss in optimality.