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About UVair

History behind the UVair Fuel Program

Back in 1981, Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. founder Tom Evans had the vision for a new service program to facilitate general and business aviation fueling needs abroad. UVair®, and later UVair Fueling Card, were initiated to provide credit and secured fuel services through a contract program. At the time of its inception, this type of program - let alone credit and fuel uplift confirmations - were basically nonexistent. Flight crews needed to travel with large sums of money just to ensure fuel needs would be covered, particularly in the international arena.

The UVair Fuel Program was initially launched at five international locations (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Le Bourget, and Madrid), and in the first month had about 10-15 uplifts. The savings offered to clients were considerable –
25 to 50 cents per gallon, with fuel credit and confirmation assured. In the months that followed, uplifts rapidly grew, and soon UVair was authorizing 30-50 uplifts per day.

For its first few years of operation, UVair was the only program providing contract fuel to general aviation. Soon the concept caught on and other providers started launching their own contract programs. As popularity in the program continued to grow, UVair expanded its locations and increased its number of suppliers each month to reach today's worldwide location acceptance.

UVair today

Today, UVair processes over 500 uplifts per day, and the UVair Fueling Card is carried not only by general and business aviation professionals, but also by heads of state, military, and commercial carriers of many nations. Its 14,000 cardholders take advantage of the acceptance and savings they receive through the program at over 2,000 card-accepting locations worldwide, and they enjoy
the benefits of having access to a team of dedicated fuel specialists working on their behalf.