Flying School vs Rezdy
Rezdy is Australian-founded and does the tour and activity job well, particularly distribution through agents and marketplaces. For a flight school it has the same fundamental limit as any activity platform: it sells experiences, it does not train pilots.
Where Rezdy is the better choice
Australian tour operators who need channel distribution and agent bookings.
Side by side
Flying School and Rezdy
| Flying School | Rezdy | |
|---|---|---|
| Australian built and supported | Built in Sydney | ✓ |
| Data hosted in Australia | Sydney region | Not advertised |
| AUD-native pricing | ✓ | ✓ |
| GST and ABN on tax invoices | ✓ | Partial |
| Xero with account and tax-rate mapping | ✓ | Partial |
| Purpose-built for flight training | ✓ | ✗ |
| CASA syllabuses included | 10 programs | ✗ |
| Grade units of competency at checkout | ✓ | ✗ |
| CASA-format logbook hours | ✓ | ✗ |
| Maintenance-due Hobbs blocks bookings | ✓ | ✗ |
| Instructor ratings enforced on booking | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI reads CASA licences and medicals | ✓ | ✗ |
| Document expiry reminders | ✓ | ✗ |
| Prepaid hour packages with drawdown | ✓ | Partial |
| Billing from Hobbs time flown | ✓ | ✗ |
| Student portal with online booking and payment | ✓ | Partial |
| Aircraft and instructor utilisation reporting | ✓ | Partial |
| AI assistant across the whole system | ✓ | ✗ |
Verified August 2026 from publicly available information. "Not advertised" means we could not confirm the capability, not that it is absent. Rezdy pricing model: Subscription plus booking fees, with distribution commissions. Confirm the details with the vendor.
Credit where due
Rezdy is Australian, and that matters
Rezdy
Unlike most of this list, Rezdy is an Australian company that understands GST and the local market. If your business is scenic flights sold through agents, it is a reasonable choice and we will say so.
Flying School
Our Australian argument against Rezdy is narrower: it is about aviation, not about geography. Where we differ is that we know what a syllabus, a Hobbs meter, and an ARN are.
Training
A student is not a booking
Rezdy
There is no student record that spans a training program, no competency framework, no logbook, no instructor rating currency, and no prepaid hour balance. All of that has to live somewhere else.
- No syllabus or competency records
- No logbook
- No aircraft Hobbs or maintenance state
- No document expiry tracking
Flying School
Ten CASA training programs, competency scoring at checkout, CASA-format logbooks for the student and the instructor, AI-read licences and medicals with expiry reminders, and hour packages that draw down on actual Hobbs time.
Selling hours
Flight training is sold in blocks
Rezdy
Activity platforms sell tickets and gift vouchers. A 45-hour PPL package made of 25 hours dual, 10 hours navigation dual, and 10 hours solo hire, drawn down flight by flight against the Hobbs, is not a shape they have.
Flying School
It is the shape we were built around. Packages are composed of hours of specific services, with expiry, FIFO drawdown, overage repricing, and a dated usage history.
Why schools move from Rezdy
Training records, not just tickets
Competency scoring, logbooks, and sign-offs alongside the schedule.
Hour packages that actually track hours
Drawn down on the Hobbs delta with overage repriced automatically.
No booking fee on training revenue
A subscription, with card processing direct to Stripe.
Common questions
We sell scenic flights through agents. Can Flying School do that?
Not through third-party distribution marketplaces - that is Rezdy's strength and we do not match it. Flying School sells directly through your own portal and embeddable widgets. Some operators run both.
Does Flying School handle gift vouchers?
Yes, as a value amount or tied to a specific package such as a trial flight.
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