Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) operations are critical components that keep fleets airborne. Efficient logistics are essential to these operations. Finding the right logistics partner can make all the difference.

Every repair relies on getting the right people and equipment to the right place, at the right time. A time-critical logistics partner will ensure all the pieces are in place, enabling your team to succeed.

Enhance MRO Efficiency with Actionable Logistics Data

In the demanding environment of MRO operations, the difference between efficiency and delay often comes down to the quality of logistics data at your disposal. Business Intelligence capabilities empower MRO operations with reliable data to enhance performance and streamline efficiency.

A provider that offers a comprehensive tracking system enables MROs to maintain complete visibility over their shipping activities. A logistics provider that understands the unique shipping requirements of MRO operations will offer a suite of tailored features, including:

Full Transportation and Lane Analysis: This feature allows MROs to view, filter, and export their complete shipping history. Analyzing trends based on historical data facilitates strategic planning and optimization of logistics operations.

Deep Inventory Insights: Real-time access to a 360-degree view of inventory levels—including items on hand, in transit, and stock levels across the network—empowers MROs to make informed decisions about inventory management, reducing the risk of overstocking or stockouts.

Comprehensive Spend Analysis: Visibility into total logistics spend is critical for MROs aiming to balance cost-efficiency with high service quality. A logistics partner that provides detailed spend analysis helps MROs identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising on the quality of parts and services.

By leveraging these insights, MROs can pinpoint specific areas for corrective action, enhancing overall performance. The goal is to put precision logistics management at the fingertips of MRO managers, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence that fuels business improvement.

Ensuring Seamless MRO Logistics with Expert Parts Transportation

In-depth predictive planning and inventory optimization can reduce surprises – but, MROs know preventing them entirely is impossible. A reliable logistics partner minimizes the impact of surprises.

Emergencies, like Aircraft on Ground (AOG) situations, require an efficient response. Services, like Next Flight Out (NFO) or Air Charter allow logistics providers to get the right parts and people on-site quickly.

With highly specialized parts and equipment, a logistics provider without the necessary aviation experience puts the inventory at risk. That’s why MNX has a specialized engine logistics team. There is peace of mind, knowing your couriers will handle parts with the same care as the mechanics.

See how MNX’s Air Charter & Engine Logistics Teams handled an AOG situation in the Azores.

Maintain International Compliance Through Market Expansions

The international expansion of fleet sizes and MRO markets, especially in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, presents unique challenges. To stay competitive, MROs require a logistics provider with international experience.

When handling time-critical logistics, customs can become a roadblock, and compliance mistakes can occur. International logistics require an experienced international network with industry experience.

MNX has experts in over 190 countries who can handle every detail and answer every question – no matter how many borders are crossed. MNX assists with all declarations, permits, and certifications required by local governments. We take care of all duties, tariffs, and taxes.

MNX maintains international trade compliance, so you can focus on expanding your MRO operations.

Your MRO Supply Chain Partner

Effective MRO logistics strategies require reliable inventory management for preventative maintenance and efficient solutions for the unexpected. As a leader in expedited shipping across the globe, MNX is your ideal MRO supply chain partner.

We arrange Next Flight Out (NFO) time-critical deliveries to get Aircraft on Ground (AOG) back in the air. With over 500+ airports and 45,000 uniformed, professional couriers—serving over 190 countries — we are equipped to help you get grounded planes soaring through the skies once again.

What can you do to confidently meet your expected turnaround times for repairs? MNX is your partner for time-critical logistics. With our logistics experts, you’ll save time while remaining compliant with airworthiness directives.

When a critically-ill patient doesn’t have a second to spare, you don’t have time to wait. That’s why air charter is commonplace in life sciences and healthcare. By chartering a plane, you’re placing your package on a direct flight to the point of care—wherever that may be.

After all, there’s no time to delay when your patients are waiting for lifesaving radiopharmaceuticals or organs for transplant. There’s no room for logistical errors when irreplaceable lab specimens need to arrive safely and as quickly as possible.

Chartering with Confidence: Handling Specialized Shipments in Healthcare

Because a chartered flight isn’t scheduled like a commercial one, you can avoid the issues that scheduled flights often face. With air charter service, it doesn’t matter if your local airport is dealing with delays, or if your patient lives far away from a major city. And because your chartered aircraft only serves you, you can request accommodations for shipments that require special licensing, expertise, or handling, such as radioactive materials or cold chain products that must be refrigerated.

However, there’s more to chartering the right air charter than just choosing the aircraft. For example, many countries have strict regulations on who is allowed to provide charter services, and where they’re allowed to fly. In the U.S., chartered flights require a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 135 certificate to operate.

When every second matters, the last thing you want to worry about are delays and regulations. That’s why you need a logistics provider with the right partnerships with aircraft owners and charter companies around the world to create the best air charter solution for your patients’ needs.

Building the Right Air Charter Network

To fulfill your urgent life science and healthcare delivery needs, your logistics provider must have the technology and expertise to ensure a swift and smooth delivery every time. That includes:

• A Dedicated Charter Team that’s available 24/7/365 and can arrange for air charter service anywhere in the world.

• Personalized care from take-off to landing, ensuring that you receive the precise logistic solution you need. If your delivery requires a positioning flight, you need a partner with the technology and expertise to make the connection seamless.

• A fleet of options, with a wide range of aircraft to suit every kind of chartered shipment. When you need a small aircraft to deliver an urgent package to a remote location, your logistics provider must have the right resources and connections to get it there.

• The expertise to choose the right aircraft: whether it’s size, dimensions or capabilities, you want a partner who knows how to select the right aircraft for the job—so you don’t have to.

• Expedited ground courier services to complete the journey. No matter how remote the airport, our network of more than 45,000 courier partners worldwide ensures we’ll deliver to your final destination on time.

The Quickest Path to Urgent Patient Care

When your shipments are time-critical, you need a logistics provider that can ensure they arrive when needed. That’s where MNX steps in. To us, it’s not just a package. It’s a patient. So no matter where or when your delivery needs to arrive, you can trust us. Our team of in-house air charter professionals—equipped with advanced, proprietary technology—will get it there as quickly as possible.

When you place your trust in MNX, you have a team working exclusively for you and your patients. 

Leave the logistics to us, so you can focus more on what you want to do most: save lives.

The view from inside the plane often looks very different then the view from outside. A passenger is wrapping up a business trip and eager to get home. While on the tarmac the captain announces there’s a mechanical problem. The waiting begins.

Minutes pass, and then an hour. Eventually, passengers are forced to deplane—because the part needed isn’t on hand.

The view from the outside of the plane is just as disappointing. Airlines go into triage. Working to get passengers onto other flights and quickly source the critical part and minimize more flight disruptions. Just like the passengers – airline employees aren’t getting home by dinner time either.

Stories like this are an airline’s worst nightmare. When a plane is forcibly grounded, it’s deemed an “aircraft on ground” (AOG). Not only can it damage an airline’s reputation, but an AOG’s impact can cascade across multiple airports, as one delayed flight leads to another (and another).

What can the airline do to get the AOG back in the air as quickly as possible? For the fastest delivery—from replacement parts to entire engines—Next Flight Out (NFO) shipping can answer the call.

But choosing the fastest flight isn’t always as simple as it sounds. Just because a flight leaves sooner, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be the first one to land at the AOG’s airport. The flight could have multiple stops along the way, encounter poor weather conditions, or face delays with customs or government regulations.

When a time-critical delivery can help you minimize disruptions and lost revenue, you don’t just need the next flight out. You need the best flight out.

NFO Strategy: What to Look for in an AOG Logistics Provider

To get your AOG back in the air as soon as possible, you need an AOG logistics provider that can act as a single point of contact to deliver the right NFO solution. That means having the right technology and deep expertise to determine the best transportation route. For your AOG strategy, look for a logistics provider that offers:

• An in-house Air Charter Desk that can help arrange charter flights to deliver engine parts or other AOG shipments, no matter when or where your shipment needs to go.

• Returns management with support for borrowing and lending, allowing you to optimize transportation efficiency while cutting costs on returned parts.

• Global reach and strong carrier relationships—so no matter where your shipment needs to go, it has the best opportunity to arrive on time. MNX delivers to more than 500 airports across 190 countries—critical for AOG shipments.

• Warehousing and storage that meet ASA-100 standards, including a broad network of forward stocking locations. Combined with a single inventory management system, you can see your entire storage network and strategically position parts closer to airports.

• TSA-certified ground couriers that cover the “final mile” as quickly as possible. Sometimes, the best flight out won’t land at the AOG’s airport. The right courier will complete the final leg of the journey and deliver to the final destination on time.

• Real-time monitoring of various locations, security measures, and environmental factors such as weather.

The Wind at Your Back

NFO can be your best choice for the fastest delivery of replacement parts—and MNX, your best choice for NFO. MNX Intelligent Routing technology helps ensure you identify the best flight out. We use nonstop flights when possible. And MNX AOG Logistics Specialists analyze additional variables such as the on-time performance of airlines and the level of airport traffic—all to ensure the quickest and safest path possible to your destination.

Every day, MNX arranges NFO time-critical deliveries to get AOGs back in the air. We partner with over 500+ airports and 45,000 uniformed, professional couriers—serving 190 countries from more than 700 forward-stocking locations.

Armed with MNX Intelligent Routing technology, our MNX AOG Logistics Specialists are ready when you are to tailor the ideal solution for every NFO delivery, every time. We have the global infrastructure, technology, relationships, and expertise to help you get grounded planes soaring through the skies once again.

Contact MNX to learn more about our AOG Logistics Services.

Every day around the world, the life science and healthcare industries rely on Next Flight Out (NFO) service for its most time-critical deliveries. When a life is on the line, you need to deliver from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible. By choosing NFO, you’re putting your lifesaving package on the next available flight.

After all, there’s no time for delay when a patient is waiting for an organ transplant or when the clock is ticking on a radiopharmaceutical with a short half-life. There’s no room for logistical errors when a clinical trial participant needs the next dose of the next potential cure—or a critically ill patient hopes a new cell therapy will mean more birthdays and time with the grandchildren.

For all its promise, NFO has its challenges, requiring precision logistics and deep expertise to succeed in the life science and healthcare industries. For example, some shipments might require special licensing, expertise, or handling, such as radioactive materials or cold chain products that must be refrigerated.

Just as important, there’s the challenge of knowing which flight to choose. Sometimes, the next available flight isn’t the one that will arrive at your final destination the fastest. When an on-time delivery could be the difference between life and death, you don’t just need the next flight out. You need the best flight out.

Choosing a Life Science Logistics Partner for Your NFO Strategy

For your most urgent life science and healthcare deliveries, your logistics provider needs the technology and expertise to ensure the fastest delivery—in other words, the best flight out. That includes:

• Flight routing technology that identifies the fastest delivery based on weather, aircraft type, security requirements, on-time performance, schedule reliability, and availability of backup flights. For example, non-stop flights tend to be more reliable for on-time delivery, so sometimes it’s wiser to wait for the next non-stop flight, rather than taking one that leaves sooner but has multiple stops or unreliable connections.

• Trained agents that provide precise answers around such critical questions as which airline has the best on-time performance for a specific route or which airports you should avoid at which times. 

• Global reach and strong carrier relationships—so no matter where your shipment needs to go, it has the best opportunity to arrive on time. MNX delivers to more than 500 airports across 190 countries.

• Expedited ground courier services to complete the journey, picking up at the airport and delivering to the final destination. MNX has more than 45,000 courier partners worldwide.

• Anytime, anywhere coverage: emergencies happen 24/7/365. So you need a logistics provider ready to respond when needed—including nights, weekends, and holidays.

A Partner for Life

When lives are on the line, NFO can be your best choice for on-time delivery—and MNX your best choice for NFO. MNX Intelligent Routing technology helps ensure you trust your time-critical delivery to the best flight out. We identify and use nonstop flights when possible. And MNX Logistics Specialists analyze additional variables such as the on-time performance of airlines and the level of airport traffic—all to ensure the quickest and safest path possible to your destination.

Every day, MNX arranges NFO time-critical deliveries for life science and healthcare companies to 190 countries around the globe. We maintain more than 700 forward stocking locations and over 45,000 uniformed, professional couriers trained to provide white-glove service, including delivering directly to the operating room.

Armed with MNX Intelligent Routing technology, our MNX Logistics Specialists are ready when you are to tailor the ideal solution for every NFO delivery, every time. We have the global infrastructure, technology, relationships, and expertise to help you create the right NFO strategy. So you can focus on what you do best—saving lives.

Contact MNX to learn more about our Life Science logistics services.

When it’s highly sensitive, irreplaceable, and needs to be delivered as quickly as possible, leading financial institutions and government agencies alike turn to Next Flight Out (NFO) shipping. When safety, speed, and security matter, you want your shipment on the first aircraft that can deliver on time—especially when that means ASAP.

But the very next flight available might not be the answer for the secured transport of such sensitive shipments as one-of-a-kind documents and proprietary digital media. Why? Because it may not arrive at your destination first. There may be a different flight that leaves later but arrives sooner. Rather than the next flight out, you need the best flight out.

Of all the available flights to your destination, how do you know which is the best flight out?

What to Look for in an NFO Logistics Partner for Secure Transport

For the fastest way to deliver your highly sensitive, time-critical materials, your logistics provider needs deep expertise with both technology and precision logistics. That includes:

• Flight routing technology that identifies the fastest delivery based on weather, aircraft type, security requirements, on-time performance, schedule reliability, and availability of backup flights. 

• GPS-enabled real-time monitoring that uses 4G and 5G technology to precisely track your high-value shipments from origin to delivery. For the highest levels of security, an airline-approved sensor should monitor precisely when and where a shipment is opened or if the outer packaging has been compromised.

• Additional security measures such as unmarked vans and serialized, tamper-proof cable or zip ties.

• Trained agents that provide precise answers around such critical questions as which airline has the best on-time performance for a specific route or which airports you should avoid at which times. 

• Global reach and strong carrier relationships—so no matter where your shipment needs to go, it has the best opportunity to arrive on time. MNX delivers to more than 500 airports across 190 countries.

• Expedited ground courier services to complete the journey, picking up at the airport and delivering to the final destination. MNX has more than 45,000 courier partners worldwide.

• Anytime, anywhere coverage: emergencies happen 24/7/365. So you need a logistics provider ready to respond when needed—including nights, weekends, and holidays.

A Partner in Time

When your shipment is irreplaceable, security matters the most. And nothing is more secure than a logistics strategy planned down to the most precise detail.

MNX Intelligent Routing technology helps identify the best flight out for your high-value, time-critical delivery. We use nonstop flights when possible. And MNX Logistics Specialists analyze additional variables such as the on-time performance of airlines and the level of airport traffic—all to ensure the quickest and safest path possible to your destination.

Every day, MNX arranges NFO time-critical deliveries of highly sensitive materials for financial institutions, government agencies, and others around the globe. We ship to 190 countries and maintain more than 700 forward-stocking locations.

More than 45,000 uniformed, professional couriers are trained to provide white-glove service for secure and irreplaceable items. Our couriers are thoroughly vetted: we require them to undergo background checks from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and—if required—obtain additional state or federal clearances as well. For military deliveries, our vetted drivers improve efficiency by being familiar with the logistics procedures of military bases.

Armed with MNX Intelligent Routing technology, our MNX Logistics Specialists are ready when you are to tailor the ideal solution for every NFO delivery, every time. We have the global infrastructure, technology, relationships, and expertise to help keep sensitive shipments safe, discreet, and on time.

Learn more about MNX’s secure transport services.         

MNX Global Logistics (“MNX”) is in exclusive company, as one of only five air providers of Class 7 materials into Italy and the only provider licensed to charter light jet services. In an exclusive partnership for radiopharmaceuticals with Air Hamburg, MNX is able to cross a geographic and demographic threshold that has been inaccessible for Radiopharmaceutical companies on a light charter basis.

“The population of Italy is vital when conducting clinical trials for radiopharmaceuticals,” said Tom Brennan, Vice President of Life Sciences at MNX. “Currently there are studies for Alzheimer, Prostate Cancer and Breast Cancer that will regain momentum as we’re able to deliver more doses.”

Certain Radiopharmaceuticals have a short half-life and must be delivered in less than five to six hours. Air charters significantly cut down on transport time, relieving much of the up-front risk and reducing loss of valuable doses due to decay.

“Air Hamburg is proud to receive the approval to carry radiopharmaceutical goods into Italy and looks forward to partnering with MNX to provide air charters,” said David Bergold, Vice President Sales.

Time-critical logistics is the hallmark of MNX. “Whether by ground, air, or a combination of both, we ensure our customers’ products are delivered with care and precision and often within very short windows of time. Earning the Class 7 license in Italy expands our reach for a vital segment of healthcare studies,” said Brennan.

On land, in the air and across the seven seas, right now the world’s supply chain can be summed up best in a single word: chaos.

Blame it on the pandemic, explosion of ecommerce, out-of-control wildfires and hurricanes, labor shortages, bottlenecks in cargo shipping—you name it. They’re all contributing to a global supply chain that once ran like clockwork.

The holiday shipping surge will only add to the chaos as deliveries are delayed around the world, just as they were last year.