It all depends on the precise reasons for pulling the AOC.
After I last left Emerald in 2001 I joined another cargo (and pax) operator and some 10 months into that job we had a situation whereas the crewing department should have consisted of 3 but one was on maternatity leave, the guy who did the crew records and indeed the only one that knew how to enter the info into the machine was indefinately sick thus I was left on my lonesome basically working 12 hours a day and 7 days a week. I was a walking zombie but the overtime at the end of each month was great and management aware of what I was going through allowed me a wide berth.
Anyway, it reached the stage whereas the crew records were some weeks out of date and the Flight Ops Inspector, known less than affectionally as 'Swampy' (the b@stard wouldn't stop digging) decided that unless the crew records were up to date that evening then we wouldn't be flying, he would pull the AOC.
Well it was down to the old fashioned way of doing things, by the time I may have learnt how to use the crew records machine we would have been grounded thus out with the pencil & paper, I got them up to date somewhere around midnight but had reported them up to date to Swampy an hour earlier, OK so I lied, but at least we could operate the night freight.
A matter of some 2 weeks later, late afternoon/early evening, the DFO came to me looking for the OM who had already gone home. The DFO exclaimed 'he's going to pull the AOC, help me Phileas' thus I wandered downstairs with my pencil & papers in hand. Swampy had decided that our crew records were so far out of date that he was pulling the AOC. 'Give me a name' I asked and I proved to him that that person, and another, and another etc. were all up to date allbeit in a pencil & paper format, the little
sh1t didn't know where to put himself!
The moral of this story, well for the afflicted it's taken your mind of more serious matters if only for a few moments and it serves to prove that the Campaign Against Aviation can be mistaken, presumptuous, indeed wrong on occasions.
Good Luck