Aircraft on ground

But I'm only here in Lakeland.

I may know some other areas, but I really am at a loss sometimes when, say, I'm broken down, what we call AOG or aircraft on ground when I'm far away.

But I really, you know, I value those really trusted relationships that I have with my mechanics, especially in this area.

I could name them.

I am somewhere out.

And by the way, when we're talking aircraft, the same applies whether you're flying a business jet or you're 172.

When you're away from home, and some of us haven't had that AOG experience, you will eventually, but it really is an interesting experience.

There's this feeling you get in your gut when you're at a foreign airport.

Maybe once or twice, but it hasn't been a much, um, enough.

You shot us an email and said, "Hey, would you like to chat about all things maintenance, AOG, et cetera, ed- educate the pilots out there a little bit about, uh, what it's like to maintain aircraft?" Kind of the other side of, of the operation, so we were excited to, uh, get you on the podcast, so welcome.

Thanks, Dylan.

Glad to be here, and thanks, Max.

And just to give you a perspective, every flight department that I've had, we measure dispatch reliability and dispatch availability.

The availability, again, just the amount of time that you're gonna have that, that airplane available.

That's looking at all of your inspection costs and then buffeting in a little bit for AOGs, whatever that is.

Then you got reliability.

Let's start with a bit around aviation logistics.

So by itself, this is already an incredibly complex world, but aircraft on ground or AOG logistics is kind of that extreme end with zero margin for error.

And this is where mark and precision logistics comes into play.

So tell me how that works.

So I think that's already running at close to 15 years, which is rising.

And these older airframes are going to need more maintenance checks and more component overhauls.

And that's going to drive up AOGs and AOG events.

whereas you have to acknowledge that that is here to stay.