AIRLIANCE CELEBRATES 10-YEAR MARK

The Company Experiences Constant Growth Through a Turbulent Decade for Airline Industry; Evolves as a Supply Chain Partner for the Future

This year, AirLiance Materials celebrates its ten-year anniversary. Originally founded in 1998 by Lufthansa Technik, United Airlines, and Air Canada as a way to save costs on their respective operations through a more effective parts stocking and distribution strategy, the company rapidly grew to become one of the top three parts redistribution specialists and a uniquely effective supply chain partner to the airline industry.

During its first decade, AirLiance has provided over 1.5  billion dollars worth of spare parts and related services to airlines and other air transport concerns.  With cost-savings per purchase averaging well over 30% (as compared to OEM prices), AirLiance has saved its partner airlines and air transport customers an estimated $450,000,000 USD in just cost-of-materials alone.

According to David Sisson, CEO and President since the formation of the company, “Safely reducing cost of operations has necessarily become an issue of concern for the airline industry over the last decade.  When it comes to maintenance, there are limited opportunities to reduce labor costs, so carriers, MROs and component overhaulers have increasingly turned to us to reduce both material consumption costs as well as inventory carrying costs.  In turn, we constantly seek new ways to help our customers operate more efficiently and more cost effectively.”

Because the company was founded on the extensive operational experience of its founding partners (at the time of the company’s formation, the three airlines were responsible for over 17% of the total seat miles globally), AirLiance has been singularly effective in working with the individual quality and procurement environments of its customers and has steadily expanded its portfolio of services based on the real-world needs and concerns of those customers.  The company quickly transitioned from supplying its partner airlines to supplying virtually every major carrier — playing a proactive yet often diverse role in helping airlines effectively provision complex fleets globally while lowering overall procurement costs over the long haul.

Roscoe Musselwhite, who has been with the company since shortly after it was formed and is now COO and Executive Vice President, has played an instrumental role in developing its customer-focused growth strategies.  He noted that, “Today and in the foreseeable future our customers are faced with meeting serious operational cost challenges, typified by the recent meteoric rise in fuel costs.  As we start our second decade, we’ll be working hard to find new ways of being part of the solution.”

For more information or to arrange for an interview with either David Sisson, CEO and President of AirLiance, or Roscoe Musselwhite, COO and Executive VP, contact either: Kimberly Miller, Phone 1.847.233.5828, email Kimberly.miller@airlince.com; or Michael King, phone 1.805.423.3056,
email mking@kinggroup.com.

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