Aviall's Customer-Focused Technology Named Among World's Best by Two Prominent Technology Publications.

Business Editors

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2001

Aviall, Inc. (NYSE:AVL) announced today that two prominent technology magazines have honored the Company's Aviall Services business unit for the innovation and success of the unit's customer-focused information technology and e-business systems.

InfoWorld has placed Aviall Services on its 2001 InfoWorld 100 list -- indicative of the top 100 e-business providers in the world. The Company has also been nominated for the Computerworld Honors Program, which awards companies on the basis of ground-breaking solutions that contribute most positively to business change and operational efficiencies. Dallas-based Aviall Services is the world's leading independent provider of aerospace parts and related services.

InfoWorld said of those on its 2001 list, "Each of these 100 organizations is an innovator and exemplifies the best of IT. Each of these organizations exemplifies the ways in which cutting-edge technologies can be used to build better businesses." The magazine also specifically noted Aviall's bolstering of its infrastructure through deployment of EMC E-Infostructure.

The Computerworld Honors Program "honors men and women from around the world whose visionary technology produces and promotes positive social change." Specifically, the nomination cited Aviall's e-business for its "improved customer service and supply-chain management." The nomination means Aviall will be considered for Computerworld's 21st-Century Achievement Award early in 2002.

Paul E. Fulchino, Aviall's chairman, president and chief executive officer, stated, "The ground-breaking e-business strategy that we embarked upon in 2000 is now bearing fruit. Our integration of traditional communications channels and new technologies was intended to provide our suppliers and end-customers unparalleled customer service and powerful supply-chain efficiencies through uniform access to higher quality information, quicker response time, and improvement in fulfillment costs. We are clearly achieving those goals."

Fulchino explained, "Our new-generation website, which we launched earlier this year, has shown amazing growth. Our sales run rate on aviall.com is approaching $40 million, up from $23.2 million in all of 2000. Our customers who order via aviall.com do so more frequently and purchase two-and-a-half times more parts per order than those using our other sales channels. Also, our transaction costs on aviall.com are substantially lower. Additionally, integrating Aviall Services' many systems and applications has resulted in improved information transfer to and from our suppliers, and greater customer-service efficiencies as well. As a result, both new and existing suppliers are showing increasing interest in the many advantages we can provide them."

Fulchino concluded, "Our technology advances are helping us strengthen customer and supplier relationships alike and provide improvements throughout our business. It is our continued e-business goal to be considered not only unequalled in aviation parts supply, but as an overall business-to-business leader as well. We fully intend to build on these successes."

Joe Lacik, Aviall Services' vice-president of information services, said, "It is a tremendous honor to be considered to be among the best in the world by these publications. It is a credit to the efforts of our entire diverse Aviall team. I am particularly proud of our IS professionals who have created the e-business environment in which many of our future business successes will occur."

About Aviall, Inc.

Aviall, Inc. (NYSE:AVL) is a leading solutions provider of aftermarket supply-chain management services for the aviation and marine industries. As the world's largest independent provider of new aviation parts and related aftermarket services, the Aviall Services business unit markets and distributes products for more than 180 manufacturers and distributes approximately 90,000 line items from our customer service centers located in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Aviall Services also supports a full line of aviation batteries, hoses, wheels and brake services. The Inventory Locator Service (ILS) business unit, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, provides information and enables commerce via its global electronic marketplace to enable subscribers to buy and sell commercial aviation and marine parts, equipment and services. Additional information on Aviall is available via the Internet at www.aviall.com.