Volanti Operations · from £299/mo

For flight schools and busy clubs.

Everything in Scheduling, plus waiting lists that refill cancelled slots, courses that match students to their instructors, and the reports to see how it is going.

What is included

from £299/mo

Priced on billable hours a month

  • Everything in Scheduling
  • Waiting lists with expiring offers and standby digests
  • Courses that match students to their instructors
  • Demand and utilisation heatmaps, reports and CSV exports
  • Two-way Xero sync
  • Roles, permissions and audit trail
  • Training records Coming soon
Waiting lists

Waiting lists with expiring offers.

When a student or member cancels, Operations ranks the waiting list and emails the first match a time-limited offer with a one-click accept link. Choose first-in-first-out or best-match, per booking type.

  • Expired offers move to the next person automatically
  • Auto-book mode books the top match outright
  • Saved availability alerts record demand you could not meet

Saturday 10:00 to 12:00

Slot freed by a cancellation

  1. 1. Student A Expired
  2. 2. Student B Declined
  3. 3. Student C Offer open
  4. 4. Student D Next
Each offer has an expiry

Cancellations, standby and offers.

Weather and technical cancellations

Cancel for weather or a technical issue and the aircraft or instructor is held for everyone. When it is released, the waiting list re-runs on its own.

Instructors get a standby digest

Unmet demand is emailed to instructors as standby opportunities. They can open availability to take it.

Offers accepted from the portal

Students and members join the waiting list from the pilot portal and accept an offer with one click.

Courses

Enrolment, from sign-up to graduation.

Students enrol, join a course waiting list when you are full, are promoted when a place opens, and graduate at the end. Each student is matched to their instructors through the course, so lessons are booked with the right person.

  • Students matched to their instructors through courses
  • Per-course pricing that drives the charges
  • Course bookings gated to enrolled students

A student's course

  1. Waiting list
  2. Promoted
  3. Enrolled
  4. Graduated
Course flying Enrolled students only
Full courses have a waiting list
Instructor availability for one day: each instructor against the day's time slots, ticked where they are available and crossed where they are not
The pick up a session screen on a phone, where an instructor makes themselves available for pilots waiting on standby and turns on a weekly email about sessions they could pick up
Instructors

The instructor portal.

Each instructor publishes availability, sees their diary, subscribes to it in their own calendar, and completes flights as they happen.

  • Flight completion creates the student's charges
  • Standby digests of unmet demand
  • Course students booked with their matched instructor
Running the office

Reports, Xero and staff access.

Included with Operations

Heatmaps

Demand and utilisation heatmaps show which days and hours fill and which sit empty.

Reports and exports

Reports, plus 13 or more one-click CSV exports: bookings, flights, charges, payments, memberships and more.

Xero sync

Invoices and payments sync both ways with Xero.

Roles and audit trail

Give each member of staff the access their job needs, rather than full admin. Every change is logged.

With payments

Sell courses and block hours.

Packages

Bundle flying, ground school and landing fees into one package with its own price.

Block-hour accounts

Packages fund prepayment accounts. Lessons draw them down, and alerts go out as an account nears zero.

Part payments

Take part payments against any charge, with the balance tracked on the account.

Coming soon

Training records are next.

We are building these into Operations now. Records will be digital, progression will be visible to student, instructor and office, and every file will be ready for audit.

Help shape it

Competency-based training records

Will replace the paper training file.

Student progression

Will show who is ready for the next stage, and who is stuck.

Safety management

Will sit alongside the operational data.

Pricing

Priced on billable hours a month. Aircraft hours plus instructor hours, as a 3-month average. A one-hour dual lesson counts as two.

Up to 500 hours

£299/mo

Up to 1,000 hours

£499/mo

Up to 2,000 hours

£799/mo

More, or over £1M a year Commercial
With payments

Turn on payments to take cards, part payments and gift vouchers, sell courses and block hours, and chase balances automatically. You pay 1% of the revenue you record through Volanti, with your band price as the minimum.

Try Operations.

From £299 a month. Your first 30 days are free.