Global aviation AOG network
Modes & roles

The same network, seen from wherever you sit in the AOG.

An airline needs help. A repair station provides it. A freight company moves the part. Nobody in that sentence wants the same screen, so the application shows each of them their own job, and only their own job. There is no single view of everything, because there is no single person who should see everything.

Two modes, one account

Two modes, and plenty of companies use both

A maintenance organization asks for a part in the morning and quotes for a repair in the afternoon. One company, one account, one team list, with both modes switched on. Nobody buys two subscriptions to sit on both sides of the industry, because on this network almost everybody does.

Requesting

Airlines, operators, lessors, and maintenance organizations sourcing parts

Raise the case, find the companies that can help, ask several at once, compare what comes back, accept one.

Sections you get
  • AOG Cases
  • Part 145
  • Line
  • Base
  • Favourites
  • Saved searches
  • Fleet
  • Team
  • Organization

Providing

Part-145 organizations, line and base maintenance, parts suppliers, freight companies

Receive requests routed to whoever is on duty, take responsibility for them, answer with a real offer, deliver.

Sections you get
  • Inbound requests
  • Stations
  • Scope of work
  • Approvals
  • Team
  • Organization

Which mode a company is in decides what its people see. Which station a person is assigned to decides which cases they see. Nobody browses the whole company's traffic by default.

By job

Nine jobs, and the line drawn around each one

Every card ends with what that role cannot reach. Those limits are not restrictions bolted on afterwards: they are the reason the companies on either side of a case are willing to use the same network.

Requesting

Airlines & operators

The company with a grounded aircraft and a number going up every hour. Between crew, passengers, slots, rebooking and lease penalties, an AOG runs from tens of thousands of dollars an hour into six figures. The only question that matters is how many minutes come off the ground time.

What they do here

  • Raise cases from any station, including ones you have no presence at
  • Search Part-145 organizations, line and base maintenance by station, capability and aircraft type
  • Ask several companies at once and compare what comes back, side by side
  • Keep the companies you trust as favourites, and your usual searches saved
  • Hold your fleet, with registrations, types and configuration, so a case starts half filled in
Requesting

MCC & AOG desks

The controller on duty, and the single most important role on the network. The desk owns the case: it turns what the crew reported into a request suppliers can act on, chooses who to ask, and decides which offer to accept.

What they do here

  • Take ownership of a case, and the record names the desk, so a shift change never orphans one
  • Turn what the crew sent into a request with the fields a supplier needs to answer
  • Fan one case out to several companies in parallel, each in its own room
  • Watch the countdowns and let the ones that run out escalate by themselves
  • Accept an offer against your order reference, and tell the others
Providing

Part-145 & maintenance organizations

Line stations, base facilities, workshops. The app has a search named after you, because “find a Part-145 organization approved for this type, at this airport, tonight” is the question the whole network was built to answer.

What they do here

  • Publish what each station really does: capabilities, aircraft types, approvals, hours
  • Receive requests routed to whoever is on shift right now, not to a mailbox nobody reads
  • Take responsibility with one button, which stops the escalation and starts the clock on your answer
  • Answer with a real offer: scope, condition, paperwork, price, lead time, how long it stands
  • Let your response times speak for you, counted from timestamps, so they cannot be talked up
Requesting

Pilots & flight crew

One job, done in under 90 seconds, at an outstation at 2 AM: say what is wrong. Pick the aircraft or scan the registration, choose the symptom or photograph it, send.

What they do here

  • Raise a case from the flight deck or the stand, on a phone
  • Attach a photo or record a voice note instead of writing it out
  • Draft it with no signal at all, and it queues and sends itself
  • Get an acknowledgement back with a case number, so you know a human has it
Both

Engineers on site

The person with their hands on the aircraft, in poor light, wearing gloves, next to something loud. Everything here is built to avoid typing.

What they do here

  • Photograph the damaged part, or send borescope video that resumes when the Wi-Fi drops
  • Record a voice note and let the phone write it up beside the recording
  • Update the case status from the stand
  • Read the task list, so the aircraft's actual state is not folklore
Providing

Parts suppliers & distributors

The request that arrives at 03:00 asking for one part number, in a specific condition, with specific paperwork, needed by a specific time in UTC.

What they do here

  • Receive requests that already carry the part number, condition and paperwork required, with no round trip to find out
  • Quote condition and trace properly: new, new surplus, overhauled, serviceable, as removed
  • State the release you can give: FAA 8130-3, EASA Form 1, or dual
  • Offer the delivery that fits: routine, expedited, hand-carry, next flight out
  • Put a validity window on the offer, so a price from Tuesday is not held against you on Friday
Providing

Logistics & freight

The part exists and is paid for; now it has to be somewhere else by a time that was set before anyone knew whether it could be.

What they do here

  • Join the case once there is something to move, and not before
  • Work in a room with the operator and the supplying company in it, so nobody relays messages
  • Post the waybill, the tracking and the release documents where the case keeps them
  • Update to delivered against the need-by time everyone has been watching
Requesting

Purchasing & procurement

The commercial side of an event that was technical until somebody accepted a price.

What they do here

  • Join after an offer is accepted, to attach the order reference
  • See the accepted offer exactly as it was accepted, version and all
  • Follow delivery without asking the desk for an update
  • Export the case for your own records afterwards
Both

Account managers

One or two people per company, who act rarely and whose decisions last for years. Everything here is inside the app the rest of the team already uses, so there is no separate admin program to deploy.

What they do here

  • Add and remove people, and assign them to stations
  • Approve and remove devices; removing one ends its access immediately
  • Name who can restore the account: two of three managers, a printed code in the safe, a hardware key, or your own lawyer or auditor
  • Review who opened what
  • Export your company's records
The failure we designed around

The failure we designed the whole thing around

“The person who held it left” is how companies lose access to their own history. So the app carries a standing state, written as a problem rather than as a setting, and it does not wait to be asked:

And nothing about any of this appears when you sign up. A new company joins and sends its first message with no setup at all. The one question, who can restore this account, is asked once, at the moment you are about to send something worth keeping, and never again.

Only one manager can open this account. Add a second manager.
No recovery method saved.
Marco can restore the account. He is leaving. Choose someone to replace him.

Shown to whoever manages the account, until it is dealt with.

See which app each job needs

The duty officer needs a phone, the desk needs a keyboard, and purchasing needs neither installed. One account covers all three.