Fuel Cards

[tracearabians]

What are your favorite fuel cards ? Are there any in particular that will get a better discount ? Thanks

 

[NW Flyer]

It's hard to beat AvFuel contract fuel.

You can also try Colt or BestAero Net.

 

[Mercury]

My vote goes to Colt, they have treated us great. CAA has also worked out pretty well.

 

[hawkerjet]

OK Here goes!
I have:
World Fuel
Mariah
Colt
Arrow Energy
Western Petroleum
These cover all my bases and have established $20,000 monthly lines of credit with each.
I have worked for some of the worst 135 operators out there and while not proud of it, I did learn some useful skills such as Hotel bargaining 404 and fuel shopping on the graduate level. I learned what not to do when I established my own operation as well as incorporated the money saving programs only a sheista would know.
Those cards alone will reduce your second biggest cost in your flight department.
I have tried the CAA card for 6 months and found that I could beat everyone of their prices at every airport I went into. Mind you, I am a pitbull when it comes to fuel shopping and your results may vary.

 

[stratman560]

We have:

UVAir, Colt, BestAero, and of course Multi-Service, but MS is more of a credit-card for fuel than anything as well all know. For alot of our midwest fuel places, UVAir is our baby!

 

[Rxflyer]

I would be interested in knowing how those cards work. I'm familiar with the MS card, but not the others. I'm guessing you gotta slurp a lot of dead dino to qualify, obviously. Probably not as simple as a "Sam's Club for Jet-A" card, is it ?

 

[icefr8dawg]

Having worked for the cheapest operators World fuel keeps coming up a winner, and believe it or not sometimes you can even get atlantic bucks when you use it! I usually think in terms of World then Colt then any place that does avtrip points...

 

[stratman560]

I would be interested in knowing how those cards work. I'm familiar with the MS card, but not the others. I'm guessing you gotta slurp a lot of dead dino to qualify, obviously. Probably not as simple as a "Sam's Club for Jet-A" card, is it ?

Acutally Rx, all of the cards that I mentioned above do not require a minimum annual uplift. UVAir, Colt, and Best Aero all have no uplift requirements. I applied for all of them myself for our flight department (Part 91, single C560 aircraft). Just FYI.

 

[hawkerjet]

If you're looking to save money on fuel there is another program from Jet Fleet International. Talk with Noele Fournier over there.
The M/S card is an aviation credit card. But they add on a surcharge, by using your companies' credit card you will save even more. As I said earlier, I work pretty hard to save money on fuel and using the cards I described above you will enjoy pretty outstanding savings. For one, at KBRO this past December I paid 2.49/Gal from Arrow Energy. I spend approximately 30-45 minutes of my flight planning time just on fuel .

 

[Beechjetr]

all of the above plus Phoenix Fuel corp (pfc.aero). Limited locations, but pretty cheap.

 

[2EASYPilot]

What are your favorite fuel cards ? Are there any in particular that will get a better discount ? Thanks

Try the Corporate Aircraft Association....non-profit with good prices at many fbo's...just an annual fee to sign up.