What Flight Schedule Pro does

Flight Schedule Pro is a cloud-based SaaS platform, operated by Keyes Technology, LLC and powered by Pilotbase, that provides integrated flight operations management for U.S. flight schools, career pilot training centers, colleges and universities, and flying clubs. The platform is built on Microsoft Azure and organized around five core hubs: Scheduling & Training (including an AI-powered Intelligent Scheduling beta), Maintenance, Billing, Reporting, and a Marketplace, supported by a read-only REST API (5M daily calls, 99.95% availability) and a native iOS app with offline training logging. It serves 1,300-1,400+ flight schools tracking 60,000+ students and 16,000+ instructors, with notable customers including LIFT Academy, Middle Tennessee State University, FLT Academy, Crosswinds Aviation, and Jet Access Flight Training. The platform holds SOC 2 Type II compliance, supports GDPR for international customers, and integrates with QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, Sporty's ground school, LogTen pilot logbooks (via affiliate Coradine), Stripe/ProPay payments, and—most recently—Sallie Mae for embedded student loan financing.

The company sells on a subscription SaaS model with tiered, quote-based pricing (specific price points not publicly disclosed) and a consultative enterprise sales motion anchored by a 'Request A Demo' CTA, personalized onboarding, and a structured Customer Onboarding Journey. Distribution combines direct sales, an active content-marketing engine (case studies, webinars, resource library), and a flagship partnership with AOPA that highlighted 43 of AOPA's top flight training schools using FSP. Reported customer outcomes include 15-30% utilization gains (MTSU), 30-50% efficiency gains (US Aviation Academy), and near-100% first-time FAA written test pass rates (Crosswinds Aviation). Recent strategic moves—exclusive Sallie Mae financing partnership (May 2025), Part 141 modernization tooling, Sporty's ground school integration, and the Intelligent Scheduling beta—indicate active product and ecosystem expansion layered on the core scheduling business.

Name

Flight Schedule Pro

Legal name

Keyes Technology, LLC.

Website

https://flightschedulepro.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Flight Schedule Pro is a cloud-based SaaS platform that provides integrated scheduling, maintenance, billing, reporting, and compliance tools for U.S. flight schools, career pilot training centers, colleges and universities, and flying clubs, serving over 1,300 schools and 60,000+ students.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aviation Training Operations Software

NAICS

Flight Training (611512), Travel Agencies (561510)

akta.pro primary industry

Airline Operations Control & Crew Management (THALABAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Air Travel Booking Platforms (Flights) (BPAMAIAB)

Keywords

• Flight school software
• Aviation operations management
• Pilot training platform
• Aircraft scheduling software
• FAA Part 141 compliance

Headquarters

HQ city

Overland Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Flight Schedule Pro operates as a subscription-based SaaS platform providing flight school management software. Pricing appears to be tiered based on organization size and features, with the company offering plans and pricing options on their website. The platform is powered by Pilotbase.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Flight Schedule Pro is a cloud-based SaaS platform that provides flight schools, universities, career pilot training centers, and flying clubs with integrated scheduling, student training tracking, aircraft maintenance, billing/payments, and reporting functionality. The platform serves as an all-in-one flight operations management system, supporting FAA Part 61 and Part 141 compliance and integrating with third-party tools such as QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, LogTen, Sporty's ground school, and Sallie Mae student financing.

Product overview

Flight Schedule Pro is a modular all-in-one flight operations management platform, operated by Pilotbase, designed for flight schools, career pilot training centers, colleges and universities, and flying clubs. The platform consists of five core integrated hubs — Scheduling & Training (including Intelligent Scheduling in beta), Maintenance, Billing, Reporting, and a Marketplace — plus a Developer API and native iOS mobile app. The Scheduling & Training Hub serves as the central operating system for managing aircraft, instructors, students, and reservations. The Maintenance Hub provides end-to-end aircraft maintenance tracking integrated with the schedule. The Billing Hub handles invoicing, payments, and credit card processing in one workflow with the schedule. The Reporting Hub delivers data-driven KPIs and visual dashboards. The Marketplace connects schools with third-party integrations including Sporty's online ground school and Sallie Mae student financing. The Developer API (REST, read-only) allows external products to access FSP data. The iOS app provides offline-capable mobile access for scheduling, dispatch, and training logging. All modules share a unified data layer and customer onboarding is managed through a structured Customer Onboarding Journey.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scheduling & Training Hub Central flight operations platform for managing aircraft, instructors, students, and reservations, including intelligent scheduling, real-time dispatch and check-in, group scheduling for ground school, and maintenance-status integration.
• Maintenance Hub End-to-end aircraft maintenance management covering work orders, recurring and ad hoc maintenance reminders, squawk reporting, logbook generation, parts and serialized inventory tracking, time tracking, and full audit/change control. Integrated with the scheduling calendar.
• Billing Hub Integrated billing and point-of-sale system tightly connected with scheduling and dispatch. Includes automatic invoice generation at check-in, integrated credit card processing, recurring invoicing, custom price groups, monthly statements, payments dashboard, and QuickBooks Online synchronization.
• Reporting Hub Analytics and business intelligence module providing tabular analysis grids with custom columns and formulas, visual dashboards, and automated scheduled email reports. Tracks KPIs including aircraft availability, reservation fulfillment, hours flown, revenue, student progress, instructor pass rates, and graduation rates.
• Developer API REST API with separate Core, Scheduling, Training, and Reporting endpoints supporting read-only access to operators, aircraft, instructors, users, reservations, flights, courses, lessons, training sessions, and reports. Uses x-subscription-key authentication with filtering, pagination, and sorting.
• Flight Schedule Pro iOS App Native iPhone and iPad app for scheduling, booking, self-service dispatch and check-in, lesson plan review, Hobbs and tach time entry, squawk reporting, and offline training logging with automatic synchronization when reconnected to Wi-Fi.
• Part 141 Compliance Software FAA Part 141 electronic recordkeeping and compliance management module supporting digital signatures, student training records, syllabus tracking, instructor sign-offs, lesson-level audit trails, and milestone dashboards. Positions schools for FAA Part 141 modernization and competency-based training.
• Customer Onboarding Journey Structured implementation and onboarding program managed by a dedicated onboarding agent covering user import, system configuration (aircraft, courses, activity types), team training by hub, and go-live support to transition flight schools to the platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15-30% improvement in aircraft and instructor utilization (MTSU case study)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• QuickBooks OnlinecoreTechnology or IntegrationOfficial integration partner allowing flight schools to sync billing transactions from Flight Schedule Pro directly to their QuickBooks Online accounting software, eliminating manual double-entry.
• Google CalendarcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration allows students, instructors, and staff to connect Google Calendars to their Flight Schedule Pro accounts and view reserved flights, providing seamless schedule visibility across devices.
• LogTen (Coradine Aviation Systems)coreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with LogTen Pilot Logbook allows students to automatically transfer flight data to build professional logs and connect with job opportunities based on their experience. Coradine is an affiliate of Flight Schedule Pro.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud infrastructure partner providing robust security features, compliance certifications, and tools. Flight Schedule Pro's expert team has partnered with Azure Cloud for their cloud infrastructure needs.
• DratacoreTechnology or IntegrationCompliance automation platform used by Flight Schedule Pro to continuously monitor 100+ security controls across the organization, providing automated alerts and evidence collection for SOC 2 compliance.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationThird-party payment processor for credit card and debit card transactions. Flight Schedule Pro does not collect, store, or process payment information directly.
• ProPaycoreTechnology or IntegrationThird-party payment processor for payment processing services. Flight Schedule Pro uses third-party processors for secure payment handling.
• PilotbaseflagshipOthersFlight Schedule Pro is powered by Pilotbase, the revolutionary Flight Ops platform built to keep student pilots on track. Pilotbase is the parent company/brand under which Flight Schedule Pro operates.
• Sporty's AcademycoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegrated online ground school partner providing HD/4K video content and FAA handbook library with 99.4% FAA knowledge test pass rate. Students receive Sporty's courses directly through Flight Schedule Pro.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• FlightSchoolManager: Direct competitor providing flight school scheduling, student management, and billing software. Targets the same Part 61/Part 141 flight school customer base with a similar SaaS model.
• Talon Systems: Direct competitor in flight school management software. Flight Schedule Pro even maintains a public comparison page (FSP vs Talon Systems), confirming head-to-head competition for Part 141 and Part 61 flight schools on scheduling, billing, and student tracking.

Broad incumbents

• Mindbody (ClassPass parent): General vertical SaaS for appointment-based businesses (fitness, wellness, education). Competes indirectly as a generic scheduling/billing alternative that some smaller flight schools could adopt if FSP pricing is perceived as too high.
• ForeFlight (Boeing): Dominant pilot flight planning and electronic flight bag platform, owned by Boeing. Does not directly compete in flight school operations management but sits in the same pilot workflow and could expand vertically into training operations.
• FlightAware: Aviation data and flight tracking platform serving commercial, business, and general aviation. Adjacent in the broader aviation software ecosystem; could overlap in operations tracking if it expanded into flight training operations.
• Jeppesen (Boeing): Broad incumbent in aviation operations, crew scheduling, and training documentation. Owned by Boeing, Jeppesen competes in adjacent aviation training and operations software markets with significantly deeper resources and a much larger product portfolio.

Others

• Sporty's Pilot Shop: Aviation training content provider and integrated ground school partner of Flight Schedule Pro. Sporty's Academy courses are delivered natively inside FSP, making Sporty's both an ecosystem partner and an adjacent commercial training player in the same pilot pipeline.
• Sallie Mae: Exclusive student loan financing partner of Flight Schedule Pro (announced May 2025). Functions as a strategic financial partner in the platform's marketplace, not a direct competitor, but central to FSP's embedded-finance thesis.
• Coradine Aviation Systems (LogTen): Maker of LogTen Pilot Logbook, now an affiliate/subsidiary of Flight Schedule Pro following the 2022 acquisition. Sits adjacent in the pilot career workflow (post-training logging) and is bundled into the FSP marketplace.

Emerging players

• Aviation Classifieds / Aviator.io: Aviation-focused SaaS and job-matching platform intersecting with the pilot training-to-career pipeline. Touches the same end user (student pilots, CFIs) and represents an emerging adjacency in pilot workforce software.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/flightschedpro

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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