I am cross posting this from the Turbine forum. I know some of us turbine folks hang out here... I'll save the Cessna King Air jokes for another time... :-)

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I wanted to announce a new project of mine that I think will be of interest to Jet-A burning BT brothers. Like most of you, I carry a collection of Jet Fuel Cards - the usual ones, UV Air, Epic, World (formally Colt), Arrow, CAA, Shell, etc. Every time that i was going to go somewhere - especially if I was using my iPad or iPhone - would take me 10 minutes or more to log into every website to see the price. I then had to remember which was lowest, and finally return to that website to issue a fuel release. This got exponential harder if I was looking at nearby airports.

I decided to finally do something about this and wrote a handy web application that will manage all my fuel cards for me. It's called JetFuelX. You add all of your fuel cards into it, and it automatically updates the prices with your fuel card provider - ensuring you are always using current data - without any work by the user (so no more uploading of CSV files, etc). You can do a search online and are given a listing of all the prices at the airport. You can also select nearby airports to check fuel prices. You can also issue a fuel release from the app. For me to search 10 fuel cards and 5 nearby airports, I can go from start to a fuel release in about 15 seconds.

I built this tool to allow for the easy management of fuel cards and to remove the common excuse of why we don't carry all the fuel cards - they are too cumbersome to check. No more, carry them all. I noticed this comment quite a few times here whenever the "what fuel cards do you carry" posting swings back around - speaking of which it is about time again...

I decided to release this service for free. No charge. I just want to see us lower our operational costs and maybe democratize fuel prices...just a little bit.

Check it out at http://www.jetfuelx.com and let me know what you think. If you have a great idea of something I should do, let me know. This is built for the owner/operator and is also being used (in the beta) by some large flight departments.

Did I mention Free? I'm tired of everything costing so much in aviation...

-jason

P.S. the Screenshots aren't real prices - don't worry...

awesome work
Now excuse me while I go shop turbines (I'll get there someday)

very nice!
So how does it work Jason?
Do I need a user name and password from the fuel card Co?
I dont have any as I always request a fuel quote by email.

Marc:

Depending upon which cards you use, you may need a username and password (same as what you use on the web site), or, more likely, you will just need your account.

When you add a card that doesn't use the web login credentials, it asks for your account number, name and company name. What some of our early testers did was request the pricing file just based upon the name. Your tail number goes to the fuel card companies so they usually find it based upon that. Just make sure you check the box "notify the card vendor on my behalf... to automatically update the prices." This can take a few days or more, depending upon the update cycle.

For instance, Epic sends a pricing file right away. AVfuel sends a file twice a week, and Arrow sends it multiple times during the week.

I think we should have most cards covered, but maybe there are some used up north we don't have. If you come across that, let me know.

I think there is a link to a quick start guide that comes when you verify your login information, it is pretty rough, but should help explain it a bit more. PM or email me with any questions. I always like an excuse to do something with aviation...

-jason

Ok got it Jason.
Out of 5 cards I only got CAA working.
Will the other update during the week?

They should. If you have don't see most by the middle of the week, drop me a line.

-jason