In recent years, with the rapid development of civil aviation transportation, the research of aircraft maintenance routing has been paid more and more attention. In order to explore the research status, hot spots and frontier trends of the aircraft maintenance routing problem, this paper takes the domestic and foreign literatures on aircraft maintenance routing collected in the core databases of China National Knowledge Network (CNKI) and Web of Science from 2000 to 2022 as the analysis data. The CiteSpace V software is used as a auxiliary research tool to analyze the scholars, institutions and cooperative relationships in the field of aircraft maintenance routing. Combining the knowledge maps and literature content, the hot spots and frontiers of research in this field are summarized. Considering the domestic aircraft maintenance routing research, research suggestions are put forward for the research trend and focused research content in this field in China, and provide reference for future aircraft maintenance routing research scholars.