site.flights has so far shown savings through trip consolidation: combining several bookings into one trip. That's still powerful — but it isn't the whole picture. The potential is bigger than that.
Cluster detection in site.flights finds overlapping bookings in the same area and time window, and combines them into one trip instead of several. That has produced documented savings of over NOK 7.7 million since 2022, of which NOK 1.3 million in the last 6 months alone. It's still the core of the product.
But consolidation only solves one of two problems with how helicopter missions get priced.
In our article Flight time or ground time — what are you actually paying for?, we cover a practice that's common in the industry: ground time — the time the rotor runs on the ground between start and landing — is often billed as a fixed surcharge per start and stop, regardless of how long start-up and shutdown actually took.
That problem doesn't disappear because a mission is consolidated or not. It's just as real on a completely ordinary, stand-alone mission that has no other bookings to combine with.
The savings potential in site.flights isn't limited to organisations with many overlapping bookings to consolidate. It applies in practice to anyone booking helicopter services — because the question "is ground time billed as a fixed surcharge or by actual measurement?" is relevant regardless of how many missions are booked, and regardless of whether they can be combined with anything else.
That's exactly the kind of question we recommend asking in our article — and it's the same principle behind how site.flights looks at a mission: measure, don't assume.
If your organisation already uses site.flights, this applies automatically — including on missions that aren't consolidated with others. If you don't use it yet, this is a good reason to take a closer look: the savings no longer depend on having enough volume to consolidate.
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