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Before it flies
Lease, programme, business case
- MRO business casesBoard-ready cases covering demand, capacity and capital.
- Regional MRO market intelligenceMiddle East and APAC, benchmarked on price and capability.
Aviation
The invoice arrives years after the cost was decided.
MRO costing, lease return economics and maintenance-programme governance, built inside a 400+ aircraft fleet rather than borrowed from a consulting deck.
400+Aircraft in the fleet
~$2BAnnual MRO spend base
200+Lease returns owned
$60MOEM cost prevented
The market these numbers live in.
Aircraft maintenance is a $90-billion-a-year business growing at nearly five percent a year, and the fastest-growing part of it is on India’s doorstep.
Global aircraft MRO market
4.8% CAGR 2025–2030Worth $90.9B in 2024, on its way to $120.9B by the end of the decade.
Growth momentum by region
- Middle East & Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Latin America
- North America
- Europe
Regional growth against the market average, as published. Asia Pacific has the second-strongest momentum of any region.
Who does the work
Airline / operator MRO
Independent MRO
OEM MRO
Three kinds of maintenance provider share a $90.9B market. Which one holds your contracts decides who sets the price.
What it means for an Indian fleet
~41%Of any maintenance bill goes on engines — the single largest line
2,250Indian aircraft by 2035, from roughly 800 today
~90%Of India’s heavy maintenance still done outside India
Source: a market research and consulting company, Aircraft MRO Market Size & Outlook, 2025–2030. Regional and segment shares are not published in the free snapshot and are shown as rankings, not percentages.
The problem
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01Lease return
Do you know what your aircraft will cost to hand back?
- The bill is not written at lease return. It is written years earlier.
- It is written in the lease, in the maintenance programme, and in task cards nobody challenged.
- By the time the invoice lands, every decision behind it has already been taken.
- Across two hundred lease returns the pattern does not change. Move the sliders to your own fleet.
Lease return exposure — whole fleetLive
Drag to your own fleet
Total lease return cost ahead
$180M
Decided before finance saw it
$72M
Illustrative, at roughly $3M of lease return cost per narrow body. The point is not the rate. It is that the number is already fixed by the time the invoice arrives.
02Cost commitment
Is finance engaged when the cost is actually set?
- A shop visit is scheduled years after the cost was fixed.
- It was fixed when the MPD programme was adhered.
- And when the lease return conditions were signed at lease execution.
- In all these decisions the finance team has very limited engagement.
One aircraft, lease to return
Cost committedCost visible to financeBlind spots
What we actually do in aviation.
Placed where the cost is decided, not where the invoice lands.
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In service
Every day the aircraft earns
- MRO costing & capacity planningFrameworks proven against a ~$2B annual spend base.
- MPD-to-schedule alignmentOEM requirements aligned to the fleet schedule.
- Inventory & working capitalRotables and consumables; leakage reduction.
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At the shop visit
Where the invoice shows up
- Check-level financial governanceMaintenance costing, down to task level.
- Labour costing & productivityLabour-hour costing with efficiency built in.
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At handback
The bill written years earlier
- Fleet lease return economicsCommercial and cost-side ownership across 200+ aircraft.
You are probably here for one of these.
If one of them is on your desk this quarter, the first conversation is short.
01A lease return inside the next eighteen months, and no agreed number for it.
02A shop-visit quote nobody can check line by line.
03An MRO contract up for renewal that has not been re-priced in years.
04A board asking why maintenance cost per flight hour keeps moving.
05A business case for in-house capability that has to survive scrutiny.
06A lease being signed this quarter, with return conditions nobody has costed.
More than one of them, usually. Start with the one costing the most.
Set up a meeting →Multiple ways in which we can work together.
Pick the one that fits, and we will come to the call ready for it.
Tick the one closest to what you need — or book the call and we will work it out together.
Set up a meeting →What all of this has in common
By the time the invoice arrives, the decision is years old. The cost was set long before anyone paid it.
Every number on this page was fixed in a lease, a maintenance programme or a task card — before finance saw it, and while it could still have been changed.
FAQs
Questions worth asking. Answers that create clarity.
We bring clarity to what matters today and build the capabilities needed for what comes next. We partner with you through the journey — from solving immediate challenges to building a finance function that supports sustained growth.
Because a strong finance team can become a stronger business partner. We work alongside your team to bring experience, perspective and practical playbooks — helping finance earn a greater seat at the table.
We look for the pattern, not just the problem. We build the playbook once, adapt it to each business and create repeatable solutions that can scale across the portfolio.
With clarity. We start with the business agenda — understanding where finance is creating friction, where the biggest opportunities lie and what needs to change first.
Clarity today. A stronger tomorrow.
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One conversation, no deck. You will be told inside twenty minutes whether this is a fit.