Purchasing additional fuel at an earlier stop may sometimes reduce the total evaluated mission cost. Whether it does depends on the mission—not a generic tankering rule.
- Downstream fuel prices
- Applicable FBO and handling economics
- Additional carrying burn
- Fuel already on board
- Mission fuel requirements
- Aircraft fuel and weight constraints
A lower price at one stop does not automatically make tankering beneficial. The fuel must remain economical to carry after the mission’s applicable commercial and aircraft constraints are considered.
Fuel carries forward through the itinerary.
Projected Landing Fuel from one leg becomes Fuel on Board for the next. FuelOptix evaluates bounded candidate plans against that continuous fuel flow and identifies the lowest-cost evaluated valid mission plan.
FuelOptix does not guarantee a mathematically optimal result, make tankering automatically beneficial, or provide operational authorization to carry a particular quantity of fuel.