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Money-saving Web site incites fueler feud

“Everybody is sensitive to the price of jet fuel,” said Steve Elefant, explaining why he founded fuel-pricing Web site AircraftFuel.com last year.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

November 8, 2006

“Everybody is sensitive to the price of jet fuel,” said Steve Elefant, explaining why he founded fuel-pricing Web site AircraftFuel.com last year. The Web site’s purpose is simple: to consolidate discount and contract fuel programs in one place so pilots and dispatchers don’t have to go to each program’s Web site to find the best price.

“I’m an aircraft owner myself,” Elefant said, “and it took too long to look at all
the fuel sites.” A serial software company entrepreneur, Elefant figured there ought
to be an easier way to check discount fuel programs without having to look up each one separately, a process that he said can take up to an hour-and-a-half.

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