Into-Plane Fee Calculator

The recurring cast: into-plane/handling fees per unit (often invisible inside contract-fuel pricing), ramp or facility fees (frequently waived above a minimum uplift — which is itself a pricing mechanism), after-hours callout charges, security or infrastructure fees at some airports, and card surcharges. Turbine handling at full-service FBOs adds more. None are scandalous; all are quotable in advance, and the operators who ask pay measurably less per delivered litre.

They compress both components: negotiated per-unit pricing that bundles into-plane fees, and waived ramp/handling minimums at participating FBOs. The evaluation method is exactly this calculator run twice — your typical uplift at retail-plus-fees versus the program's delivered quote — across the stops you actually use. Programs win convincingly for turbine volumes and frequent travellers; for occasional piston uplifts the card discounts and self-serve pumps often win instead.

It's price discrimination that works for both sides: the FBO monetises the ramp either way, and the pilot choosing between a $40 ramp fee and a 30-litre minimum uplift can do the arithmetic — which this calculator makes explicit. The trap is topping tanks you didn't need at a premium price to dodge a smaller fee; the waiver only 'saves' money when you wanted the fuel anyway. Run both options' totals; the answer flips more often than intuition expects.

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A plain CSV with one row per entry and labelled column headers — the most portable format there is. Spreadsheets open it directly, most specialised software can map it on import, and a printed copy is perfectly legible to a human reviewer. Nothing proprietary means your fee comparison is never trapped here.