(Aug. 2, 2021) Nantucket Memorial Airport received a new shipment of jet fuel Monday morning, two days after suspending sales of the fuel used by commercial carriers like JetBlue and larger private jets.
The airport is expected to receive 130,000 gallons of Jet-A fuel this week, airport officials said.
The airport suspended sales Saturday afternoon due to overwhelming demand, competition for tanker-truck reservations on the Steamship Authority ferry, and a national truck-driver shortage, airport manager Tom Rafter said.
"Fuel sales are up 60 percent over this time in 2019," assistant airport manager Noah Karberg said. "By the end of July we pumped over 1 million gallons of Jet-A. That's a phenomenal amount for an airport this size, and historically unprecedented for Nantucket Memorial Airport."
"This isn't one issue alone upsetting the apple cart, but together the demand, logistics and driver issue put us in a hole, and we couldn't make up ground," Rafter said.
The airport fuel farm holds 100,000 gallons of Jet-A, and is typically kept at near capacity. This summer has seen an average inventory of just 38,000 gallons, or a single day's worth of fuel.
"It's like living paycheck to paycheck, and a single disruption has severe consequences," Rafter said.
Airport protocol is to limit sales of Jet-A when inventory falls below 5,000 gallons. When that happened Saturday, fuel users were advised to take on extra fuel at their point of origin or plan fuel stops, and the news was put out over official aeronautical networks.
The remaining inventory is reserved for services like Boston MedFlight and search-and-rescue operations.
Jet-A fuel is used by about a third of the aircraft that fly in and out of the airport, Karberg said.
The remaining aircraft, piston-engine planes like Cape Air's Cessna 402s and other small and medium-sized planes, use 100 low-lead fuel.
The airport does not currently have a shortage of 100 low-lead fuel, Karberg said.
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