How Price Variations Work for Flight Instructors
Learn what price variations are, and how they work with the Calendar booking listing and transaction setting.
Updated May 9, 2025
What are price variations?
When using the Calendar Booking transaction process, you can add variations to the base price of a listing. Price variations allow you to define multiple pricing options for a single listing. Each variation can have a unique name and price.
This feature is especially useful for most instructors who offer different types of services—like ground instruction at one rate, flight instruction at another, or additional services like Flight Reviews (FAR 61.56), Instrument Proficiency Checks (IPC)—all while managing availability through one single calendar. This eliminates the need to create separate listings for each service.
Instructor workflow
When creating or updating your instructor profile listing, you can add different pricing variations to your listing.
Whenever price variations are enabled to your listing, you should keep the following in mind:
- The listing search page always displays the price of the lowest price variation, with the mention "From", signaling that there are multiple options. This means that for example, if a listing has price variations of $50, $80 and $100, then "From $50" will be shown on the listing search page.
- The price of the variation are not displayed on the listing page before the student has chosen a date and booking length.
- To help students compare options easily, we recommend you to include the price per hour in the name of the variation (for example, Flight Instruction $85).
Student Workflow
When booking, students will select one option from the available pricing variations listed.