UAS International Trip Support recently began electronically distributing our international fuel prices directly to thousands of flight departments throughout the Americas. At first blush, this news may sound monotonous, even undeserving of a mention in this blog. However, it is intriguing, and here’s why.
In regards to you, our client, we have already been passing the savings we’ve ascertained from our competitive position in the fuel marketplace on to you for more than 15 years. One of the truths we are taking to Flight Departments throughout the Americas is how UAS eliminates intermediary parties, which results in lower costs to the end user. The most effective way to do that from a mass distribution perspective is through fuel management and trip scheduling programs available on your computer, tablet or smartphone.
The America’s client base has been asking us to provide our competitive international fuel prices online for quite some time now. The challenge was in setting up a data distribution network capable of effectively reaching 95 percent of the fuel management and trip scheduling programs in North, Central, and South America. The platforms in which we now distribute the weekly fuel data is either online, stationary (requiring a weekly upload by the end user), or some combination of both.
Your fuel pricing may have been converted by UAS from a photo of a handwritten price, word document, e-mail table, e-mail picture, excel file, or the industry-preferred method of a .csv file. It is no small task preparing our pricing for you every week. Through the collection and accuracy phase, to programming and distribution, many different global departments within UAS all come together to create the select worldwide international .csv files each week.
Stationary scheduling platforms which are not connected live to the internet for vendor updates necessitate a weekly upload of the .csv file. In recent months, you may have started seeing weekly e-mails with our international .csv fuel files. Those weekly e-mails contain the link to the fuel pricing for your flight department when using a stationary scheduling platform. If you are not receiving the weekly e-mail, please send a request to houfuel@uas.aero and provide your name, company and email address. We will be pleased to welcome you on board.
Online fuel management and scheduling platforms only require a one-time activation of UAS within your vendor preferences. If you are using the industry-leading fuel management platform, FuelerLinx, a one-time e-mail request to support@fuelerlinx.com asking for UAS to be displayed within your pricing suite is all that is required. After that, your UAS pricing is always available online to your laptop, tablet, or smartphone, 24/7.
Many have asked where has UAS been in the fueling market, and why do this now – quite valid and understandable questions. Since our inception more than 15 years ago, we have always offered discounted fuel options to flight departments. Commercial, military, cargo, air ambulance, governments, corporate, and charter operators around the world depend upon UAS for guaranteed fuel availability with competitive pricing. A necessary requirement of international trip support is being able to provide fuel in support of any type of aviation mission. We would not be the industry leader within the international trip support community if we had not been providing fuel and in some exceptionally hard to reach global locations too.
Because UAS’ core business is providing award-winning international trip support, our business model, unlike some of the competition, does not require reliance upon maximizing or creating confusing fuel margins to stay afloat. In other words, fuel resellers need the highest yielding margins possible to stay in business, whereas UAS does not force our clients to pay more and that is where the savings of our fuel program is passed along to you.
Since we started widely distributing our fuel pricing for select international locations to scheduling and fuel management platforms throughout the Americas, many of you may be seeing UAS in your scheduling or fuel management systems for the first time ever. Do not be alarmed, although our competition is. Healthy and ethical competition is good for any marketplace.
Serving thousands of flight departments worldwide, we understand the importance of your flight department’s annual fuel budget. Advertising our fuel prices to our clients throughout the Americas is just another way UAS is your local partner with global reach.
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Mitch Launius
Instructor Pilot for 30 West IP
Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
Dudley King
President and Founder, FlightBridge
Dudley is the Founder and President of FlightBridge, which he established in 2011 and has been focused on technology solutions for the private aviation industry since 2006. Since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1988, he has worked with an array of companies listed anywhere from VentureWire to the Fortune 100. A rare blend of executive, entrepreneur, and consultant, Dudley’s executive roles have included acting CIO positions for several companies and tech advisory services to CEOs trying to rebuild their technology organizations or looking for an external, professional point of view. Highly skilled at deeply understanding his customer’s business challenges and drawing from a long and varied experience in information technology services, Dudley excels at designing technology solutions to solve their problems.
Dr. Paulo Alves
Global Medical Director, Aviation Health, Medaire
Paulo has extensive experience in medical advisory in the aviation industry. As a cardiologist, he provides technical guidance and analysis for MedAire’s MedLink medical advisory service and is MedAire’s liaison with civil aviation regulators and industry associations. Paulo worked with Varig Brazilian Airlines for 23 years, 10 of which were spent as General Medical Manager. A member of the MedAire Medical Advisory Board, Paulo is also President of the Ibero-American Aerospace Medical Association, a member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Safety Committee, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), and a Fellow of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. Throughout his illustrious career, Paulo has held industry leadership roles including Chairperson of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee, President of the Airlines Medical Directors Association, President of the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine and was a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group from 2002 to 2006.
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