Lufthansa just cancelled 20,000 short-haul flights through October. KLM cut 160 routes citing rising kerosene costs. Delta is trimming 3.5% of its total network to claw back $1 billion in operating costs. Air Canada has suspended six routes it calls "no longer economically feasible."
This is not a forecast. This is happening right now, in April 2026, driven by a jet fuel crisis rooted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and a 129% spike in fuel prices since the end of last year.
The International Energy Agency has issued a stark warning: Europe has roughly six weeks of jet fuel reserves left. Airlines are making brutal, irreversible decisions to protect the routes that matter most — their highest-margin, longest-haul, most profitable flights.
You've done the hard part. You've cut the routes you had to cut. You've protected the ones you couldn't afford to lose. Now imagine one of those protected flights grounded by a missing part.
When an aircraft goes AOG, the clock starts immediately. At up to $150,000 per hour for a wide-body, a 12-hour wait for a part doesn't just cost you the part — it costs you the flight, the passengers, the slot, and the ripple effect across the entire rotation.
In normal times, that's painful. In a crisis where you've already cut 20% of your schedule to conserve fuel, that grounding erases weeks of careful planning in an afternoon.
And here's the part that makes it worse: traditional AOG sourcing is itself a crisis. Endless email threads to supplier contacts who may or may not be at their desk. Phone calls across time zones. RFQs that sit in inboxes for hours. Procurement teams doing the work of air traffic controllers, manually routing requests through a network of spreadsheets and personal relationships.
In a fuel crisis, every hour of that delay is not just expensive — it's unconscionable. You've already made the hard calls. A slow parts sourcing process shouldn't be the thing that unravels them.
The smarter way to close an AOG
AOG Today was built for exactly this moment. Not for the comfortable days when you had slack in the schedule and margin to absorb delays. For now — when every flight counts, every hour matters, and every cost line is under a microscope.
✔️Real-time RFQ broadcast
Post an RFQ and it hits every verified supplier in the global network the moment you submit. Not tomorrow morning. Not when someone checks their email. The second you post it. First quotes arrive in minutes.
✔️AI-matched to the right supplier
The platform doesn't just broadcast — it intelligently matches your RFQ to the supplier with the right inventory, in the right location, with the fastest delivery window. Not the most familiar name. The best fit for this AOG, right now.
✔️ Same-day order close
Most AOGs on the platform close the same day. Built for the clock, not for the calendar. When a flight is worth $300,000 in revenue, an extra day waiting for a quote is not an option.
✔️ 24/7 global, any time zone
AOG events don't wait for business hours. Neither does AOG Today. A grounding at 2am in Singapore, midnight in Frankfurt, or 11pm in Dubai gets the same response as one at noon. The network is always on.
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In a crisis, the last thing you need is another enterprise procurement platform to budget for, negotiate, and onboard over six weeks. AOG Today is free. Sign up in two minutes. Post your first RFQ today. No contract, no commitment, no friction.
AOG Today exists for moments exactly like this one. Real-time. Global. Free.
Close your next AOG today.
