Fuel Tankering Calculator

Your flight-planning system's cost-of-weight figure if you have one; otherwise working values: ~2.5-3%/h for modern efficient narrowbodies, 3-4%/h for regional jets and older narrowbodies, 4-4.5%/h for heavier or less efficient types, and proportionally smaller but still real numbers for turboprops and pistons. The factor expresses how much of the CARRIED fuel is burnt per hour just to carry it — small differences compound on long legs, which is why long-haul tankering rarely pays.

Long legs (the penalty compounds against you), landing-weight limits that force the extra fuel to shrink payload, short-field destinations where the extra weight costs performance margin, and small spreads — under roughly 10-15% price difference the penalty usually eats the gain on legs beyond an hour or two. There's also the carbon angle: penalty fuel is pure extra emissions, and several operators now apply an internal CO2 cost that tightens the threshold.

At smaller absolute numbers, yes — the same equation with avgas spreads that routinely exceed $2/gallon between neighbouring fields. A 182 carrying 30 extra gallons across a $1.80 spread nets real money against a tiny burn penalty on a short leg. The GA constraints mirror the airline ones: stay inside W&B and landing weight, and never trade fuel economics against runway performance on a hot day.

Everything you enter is saved in your browser's local storage on your own device — nothing is uploaded to any server. Your records stay completely private, work offline, and load instantly. Use the CSV export regularly to keep an off-device backup copy.

Yes — one click exports your complete tankering analysis as a CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. The export preserves every column exactly as entered, so you can print it, attach it to paperwork, or hand it to an inspector, buyer or insurance underwriter as a supporting summary alongside your official records.