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FuelerLinx Enhances Tankering Calculator

The fuel pricing provider adds new functionality to its software system aimed at saving users money.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

October 5, 2014

With fuel representing the lion’s share of a business aircraft’s operating costs–up to 70 percent according to some calculations–reducing the cost of fuel purchases remains one of the most salient ways for an operator to save money. With today’s more efficient, longer-range aircraft, operators can take advantage of differences in regional fuel pricing more often by topping off their tanks where fuel is cheaper, to the extent that increased burn penalty allows.

“The concept of tankering has long been in the aviation handbook,” said Kevin Moller, CEO of California-based fuel pricing software provider FuelerLinx. “But the ability to achieve the greatest cost savings by tankering each time you plan a trip has never existed until now.”

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