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Grounded to flying in 9 days: how a $340K advance saved ski season
One of the operator's two jets went AOG two weeks before their busiest stretch of the year. Insurance would eventually cover it, eventually. Here's how a $340K revenue-based advance we mediated got the part ordered and the plane back in the air before the season started without them.
1. The Challenge
This aviation charter operator runs a two-aircraft fleet built almost entirely around ski season, roughly 70% of annual revenue happens in a ten-week window as clients fly into mountain destinations across the Rockies. Two weeks before that window opened, one of the two jets came back from a routine inspection AOG (aircraft on ground): a component needed replacement, and the part plus MRO labor required a deposit before work would start.
Insurance would eventually reimburse part of the repair, but that process takes months, not days. The operator needed the deposit paid immediately, or risk starting the season down 50% of fleet capacity during the only ten weeks that mattered.
2. The Solution
Outcome99 mediated a $340K revenue-based advance, underwritten primarily off the healthy aircraft's booked charter revenue rather than a lengthy insurance-claim review. Because the underwriting question was "can this business support repayment from ongoing revenue" rather than "will an insurance claim eventually pay out," the advance funded in 48 hours, fast enough to cover the MRO deposit the same week the part was identified.
Repayment was structured as a percentage of daily charter deposits, meaning the busier the season got, the faster the advance paid down, aligning the repayment with the exact revenue it helped protect.
3. The Result
The aircraft returned to service 9 days after going AOG, in time to fly roughly 90% of the season's already-booked charters instead of losing half the fleet's capacity for weeks. The operator estimates the fast turnaround protected close to $700K in bookings that would otherwise have been reassigned to competitors or canceled outright.
When the insurance reimbursement eventually came through several months later, the operator used it to pay down the remaining advance balance early.
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