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Yeah, it's a big subject, right? I guess we'll start with, I'll start here by sort of saying you have to acknowledge that this part of the logistics world is daily business, right? I think from the outside, people think this really is the exception.

But when you dive into it and you're in that world, you know that for bigger airlines and MRO operators, this maintenance over the runs a lot, breakdowns happen, and these events happen more than you think.

So you have to structure yourself for that.

I'll back this up a little bit by giving some credentials to why I think this is here to stay.

We all know about the backlog in airline aircraft delivery.

I think it's 10-year waiting lists for Airbus jets now, maybe backlogs running close to 20,000 jets.

All that's going to do is it's going to force airlines to keep older aircrafts flying.

It'll delay retirement dates.

It's going to push up the average age of a global fleet.

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.

What we did at Markham Precision, and if I date back through to MNX, who became Markham Precision, we looked at what the airlines did.

What did the airlines do? How were they dealing with this? And the airlines themselves and the MRO organisations they're creating AOG desks or material planning teams who work round the clock to resolve these challenges.

So we thought a sensible thing to do and what we do is mirror that, right? We created our own AOG desk.

Our own team is starting in the US, running 24 seven.

We just work on aerospace, just work on resolving these challenges.

And that served us really well.

It gives them credibility and becoming a player in the space.

I mentioned North America being the starting point in the USA, but that was great.

But, you know, over time become a little bit challenging.

We were asking maybe people early in their career to understand some of the challenges that might happen in Europe or Asia.

So naturally the next step for us was to try and expand that.

We created a European desk and that now sits between Amsterdam and London.