KAPA Monthly Fuel Flowage & Ops Data, 2020 through February 2026

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Key Takeaways, KAPA monthly fuel volumes through February 2026:

• DEFINITIONS: ‘AvGas’ is the fuel used for most prop planes, and has two types: ‘LL’ = low-lead (euphemistically), ‘UL’ = unleaded. 'Running-Sum’ is the total for the most recent 12-months.
  
  • ’Fuel Flowage’ includes both ‘sales’ (to outsiders, buying the fuel) and ‘non-sales’ (to in-fleet planes, such as for FBO aircraft used for rental or flight training).
    
  • 'ATADS’ is FAA’s definitive air traffic count program, recorded daily by ATC; ‘OPS’ = ops per month; ‘ITIN’ = itinerant (non-local) flights; ‘LCL’ = local (mostly closed pattern) flights.
    
• 1-Year Change, 12-month running-sum ATADS: TOTAL OPS down 10%; ITIN OPS down 1%, LOCAL OPS up 1%.
  • Note that while LOCAL OPS fell to 46% of TOTAL OPS in 2025, as of February 2026 LOCAL OPS have increased to 51% of TOTAL OPS.
    
• 1-Year Change, 12-month running-sum fuel volumes through February 2026: jetfuel was up 3%; AvGas (100LL plus 94UL, for small prop planes) was down 4%.
• Seasonality: AvGas volume tends to be heaviest in August, lightest in January; jet fuel volume tends to be heaviest in summer/fall, slowest in winter/spring.
• Colorscales: Red-Blue (red higher, blue lower), Orange-Green (orange higher, green lower).
• COVID IMPACT: AvGas was virtually unchanged, but jetfuel saw reductions averaging 15%. Pent-up flight demand caused a surge-recovery Spring 2021 through Fall 2022.
• Jetfuel volume (12-month running sum) through February 2026 is 4.1% higher than the pre-COVID total through February 2020; for the same timeframe, AvGas volume is up 8.8%.
• Unleaded fuel volume: sales of Swift 94UL fuel were begun in May 2023, but the airport authority has not yet arranged sales of GAMI100UL fuel.
• 94UL volume peaked at 25% of all AvGas in January and November 2024, and was roughly 23% of all AvGas in February 2026.
• How much lead (Pb) pollution? There is one pound of lead in each 214 gallons of 100LL. In the year ending February 2026, fuel volume included 2,716 pounds of lead. Trending upward.
• Lead pollutants peaked at 3,152 pounds/year in May 2022; as of February 2026, 94UL sales have achieved a 13.8% net reduction of lead, to 2,716 pounds/year.
• Note that the three primary revenue sources for the airport authority are fuel flowage fees, usage fees (for landing, overnight parking, etc.), and leases (hangars and/or ground space).
  
• Fuel sales generate 10cts/gal for AvGas and 15cts/gal for jetfuel; 2025 revenues were $72.1K (avgas) and $2.13M (jetfuel). Most aircraft pay zero landing fees.