Fuel management software provider Fuelerlinx has made several key additions to its subscription-based pricing platform, which it will demonstrate to showgoers here at its NBAA booth (1555).
With an aim towards improving customer flight planning efficiency and savings, the company has partnered with Skyplan for optimized routing, aircraft performance data and suggested altitude changes, which will improve Fuelerlinx’s accuracy on domestic and international tankering decisions. It has also integrated iFlightPlanner’s graphical user interface into its tech stop and flight planning tool, thus allowing users to visually build out routes and file flight plans from within the system. “We’ve been working on this for a little over a year to get the most accurate results we can,” said Fuelerlinx president Kevin Moller. “What Fuelerlinx does is layer its tankering algorithms and fuel network over that interface, so now you have the best of every world. You have three companies coming together and building something that is very robust, and has global capability.” He noted that the system is unbiased as to fuel vendors.
Fuelerlinx currently has relationships with 40 fuel vendors, the latest addition being Phillips 66, and it has built exclusive interfaces that allow most of them to digitally invoice customers through their individual transaction center on the Fuelerlinx platform. “It’s being provided digitally, so the user doesn’t have to do any manual entry,” Moller told AIN. “For some of the larger charter operators that are doing 200 operations a day, this is a godsend, because so much of their time is spent manually inputting this data. S o to be able to digitize this and automate is huge.”
With its automated expense-reporting feature, connected currently through ArincDirect FOS and Avianis scheduling software programs, users can now import transaction data into their Fuelerlinx account. Another innovation is the storage and archiving of fuel releases and invoices. “Now they are in one place that can be accessed from any mobile device from any part of a flight department,” Moller noted.
Of particular interest to the Los Angeles-based company’s international operators, VAT/MOT tax recovery has now been automated through a partnership with Taxback International. Fuel invoices containing such tariffs can now simply be dragged and dropped on screen into the detail section of each international dispatch for Taxback to reclaim on behalf of the customer.
The system now also includes a currency conversion widget, which will allow subscribers to use their system settings to easily customize how they would like to see local currencies displayed in the system. The widget can also translate quotes and billing statements into any currency. “This converter will take those currencies and translate them for the user to digest and issue payment,” said Moller.
Another newly developed widget will inform users when a ramp fee was last updated, allowing them to make more informed fuel cost decisions.