What If Your AOG Solution Cost $0 — and Saved You $150,000?

What If Your AOG Solution Cost $0 — and Saved You $150,000?

Most procurement decisions in aviation come with a price tag. A new supplier relationship requires vetting time and legal agreements. A platform subscription requires budget approval. A wet lease requires a deposit before the aircraft even moves.

AOG Today requires none of the above.

The cost to post your first RFQ is zero. No subscription. No onboarding fee. No minimum order. You post the requirement, verified global suppliers respond with live quotes, and you close the order the same day.

What that zero cost can save you looks considerably different.

The Math Every Procurement Team Should Run Once

A single 3-day AOG event on a narrowbody aircraft carries a financial exposure most finance teams never see in one place. It's distributed across departments, absorbed into operational budgets, and rarely attributed to the sourcing process that extended the grounding.

Here's what it actually adds up to:

Lost revenue: $15,000 per hour

A grounded narrowbody on a high-frequency route generates between $10,000 and $150,000 in direct lost revenue per day depending on load factor, route, and season. At the conservative end, three days of grounding costs $90,000 in direct revenue alone — before a single additional cost is added. During peak autumn and winter operations, with aircraft running at maximum utilization to cover seasonal demand, that number pushes toward the higher end consistently.

Wet lease rate: $45,000 per day

When an aircraft goes AOG and the airline needs to protect its schedule, the immediate response is a wet lease — an aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance package sourced from another operator at rates that have increased significantly over the past two years. Airlines that signed wet leases during peak AOG periods in 2025 and 2026 paid rates that would have funded years of platform infrastructure many times over. A three-day AOG requiring wet lease coverage adds $135,000 to the bill before any other cost is counted.

Crew and passenger costs: $20,000+

Crew legality runs from the moment the aircraft is grounded. A crew positioned for a departure that doesn't happen goes illegal for the return rotation within hours — triggering hotels, per diems, and repositioning costs that accumulate around the clock. Passenger compensation obligations under EU261 and equivalent regulations add statutory payments of €250 to €600 per passenger per delayed or cancelled flight. On a 180-seat narrowbody with reasonable load factor, one cancelled rotation generates tens of thousands in combined crew and passenger costs before the maintenance bill is even raised.

Grey market risk: incalculable

This is the cost that doesn't appear on the AOG event report until it's catastrophic. When procurement teams are under pressure to close a grounding fast — and the verified supply chain is taking 72 hours to respond — the grey market becomes a temptation. The AOG Technics scandal made this visible at scale: over 60,000 fake engine parts with forged Authorized Release Certificates entering supply chains at American Airlines, United, Southwest, Ryanair, TAP, and Virgin Australia. The director received nearly five years in prison. The cost to affected carriers in operational disruption, airworthiness reviews, and reputational damage dwarfed any sourcing shortcut that enabled the risk.

Fast sourcing and safe sourcing are not a trade-off. They are both non-negotiable.

Total exposure per 3-day AOG: $258,000+

That is a conservative estimate. It excludes slot loss at congested airports, the downstream scheduling disruption of cascading delays, the operational cost of crew repositioning across multiple rotations, and the longer-term reputational impact of repeated schedule failures on a route.

The $0 on the Other Side of That Equation

AOG Today was built around a single operational principle: the fastest verified connection between the operator who needs a part and the supplier who has it.

The platform is free to access. Posting an RFQ takes seconds — no lengthy registration process, no waiting for account approval, no subscription required before the first urgent requirement goes live. Verified global suppliers respond with live quotes in real time. Orders close the same day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in any time zone, for any aircraft type.

Every supplier on the platform is verified. Every component comes with full traceability. The grey market risk that sits at the end of every desperate 3 AM sourcing call is eliminated by design — not as a feature, but as a foundational requirement.

Why Time Is the Variable Nobody Optimises For

The aviation industry spends significant energy optimizing parts pricing. Supplier negotiations, volume commitments, preferred vendor agreements — all designed to reduce the unit cost of components.

The same industry almost never optimizes for sourcing speed. And yet time, not price, is the major pressure facing procurement teams — with maintenance professionals spending significant hours researching part numbers, locating inventory, and identifying alternatives when an AOG hits.

A part that costs 20% more and arrives in 4 hours is worth more than a part at list price that arrives in 5 days. Every procurement manager knows this in the moment of a live AOG event. Most sourcing infrastructure is not built around it.

The $15,000 per hour clock starts the moment the aircraft stops. Every hour spent sending emails that won't be answered until Frankfurt opens is $15,000 added to a bill that grows while the inbox sits empty.

What $0 Gets You

The platform is free to try. Not free for a trial period before a subscription kicks in. Not free for the first order before pricing applies. Free to post your first RFQ, receive live quotes from verified global suppliers, and close the order the same day.

The cost of trying AOG Today is zero.

The cost of not trying it shows up on a receipt that looks like this:

AOG EVENT — TABLE FOR 1 AIRCRAFT
─────────────────────────────────
Lost revenue (per hour).... $15,000
Wet lease rate (per day)... $45,000
Crew disruption............ $8,000
Passenger compensation..... $12,000
Slot loss (per rotation)... $6,000
Grey market parts risk..... priceless
─────────────────────────────────
TOTAL per 3-day AOG........ $258,000+
─────────────────────────────────
TIP FOR SLOW SOURCING...... everything

You can keep chasing parts by email at 2 AM while the clock runs at $15,000 an hour.

Or you can post your RFQ on AOG Today and close the order before Frankfurt opens.

The cost of trying: $0.
The cost of waiting: everything.

Post your first RFQ for free — today.
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Sources: EU Regulation 261/2004 | IBA Aviation Engine Lease Rate Data 2026 | AOG Technics criminal case UK 2026 | Aviation Week MRO Supply Chain Report 2026 | Locatory.com Aviation Parts Demand Report August 2026