Accelerated academy · Stratford, CT · Checked August 1, 2026
What Avia Flight Academy's program costs
A full-time, integrated career program sold at a fixed price, not an hourly rate. Every figure below is Avia Flight Academy's own published price, with the source and the date we read it. This is the published sticker, not a personalized quote.
Website aviaflightacademy.com
Published program price
$86K
Professional Pilot Immersive Path (Accelerated)
The academy does not publish how hours beyond the estimate are billed. Confirm before enrolling.
Avia publishes a base price and an upgrade price for each pathway and does not say what happens if training runs past the planned hours. It publishes no hourly rate either, so there is no way to work out what an extra hour costs. Ask before enrolling.
The academy's own published price. It does not reduce the 1,500-hour airline minimum (only a qualifying degree does). Prices change. Confirm current figures with Avia Flight Academy.
The programs, with sources
PPL · IR · CPL
Avia does not itemise this price. Its own upgrade description puts the CFII and multi-engine time building in the $98,000 track, so the base figure is recorded as covering the Private, Instrument and Commercial only. Confirm what is inside it, and whether checkride, examiner and exam fees are, before comparing it with anything.
Published payment plan: $10,000 to begin training, then $9,000 per month during the active training phase, with a final payment adjusted for add-ons.
Full-time, five days a week, described as zero experience to airline-ready in as little as ten months. The $98,000 Advanced Track adds the CFII and multi-engine time building.
PPL · IR · CPL
Same caveat as the accelerated path: the price is not itemised, and Avia does not say whether exam, examiner or checkride fees are inside it.
Published payment plan: $5,000 deposit to secure a training slot, then $5,000 per month during training.
Three to four training sessions a week over eighteen months, priced identically to the ten-month accelerated path at both tiers. The upgrade here is worded differently, as a $98,000 "Full Career Track Option (includes complete airline pathway support)" rather than as the CFII and multi time building, so ask what the difference actually is.
PPL · IR · CPL · Multi · CFI · CFII
Avia publishes no price for this pathway. It is sold per certificate, one stage at a time, with "no large upfront bundled tuition", and the page names the stages without pricing any of them.
Pay-per-certificate rather than a package: Private, then Instrument, then Commercial, then the Multi and CFI/CFII. Avia gives a completion range of 19 to 23 months and 35 to 43 months to airline readiness, and no figures at all.
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- How much does Avia Flight Academy cost?
- Avia Flight Academy publishes $86,000 for its Professional Pilot Immersive Path (Accelerated), as listed on the academy's own pricing page (August 2026). It publishes 3 tracks in total, priced by how much flight experience you start with. That is the published sticker for the program, not a personalized quote, and it is what the academy asks before the fees the sticker excludes.
- What is included in Avia Flight Academy's program price?
- Avia Flight Academy's published programs cover Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, Multi-Engine (AMEL), Flight Instructor and Instrument Instructor. The academy states about 10 months to finish. On what it excludes, the academy states: Avia does not itemise this price. Its own upgrade description puts the CFII and multi-engine time building in the $98,000 track, so the base figure is recorded as covering the Private, Instrument and Commercial only. Confirm what is inside it, and whether checkride, examiner and exam fees are, before comparing it with anything.
- What happens if you need more hours than Avia Flight Academy's program includes?
- The academy does not publish how hours beyond the estimate are billed. Confirm before enrolling. Avia publishes a base price and an upgrade price for each pathway and does not say what happens if training runs past the planned hours. It publishes no hourly rate either, so there is no way to work out what an extra hour costs. Ask before enrolling. This is the question worth asking hardest at any accelerated academy, because the published price and the price a student who flies over the plan actually pays are two different numbers.
- Does going to Avia Flight Academy lower the 1,500-hour airline requirement?
- No. An accelerated academy does not reduce the 1,500-hour ATP minimum. Only a qualifying aviation degree does, under 14 CFR 61.160, which lowers it to 1,000 hours for a bachelor's or 1,250 for an associate's. What an academy sells is speed and a fixed price to the commercial certificate and instructor ratings, not a shortcut to the airlines. Most graduates then instruct to build the remaining hours.
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Figures are Avia Flight Academy's own published program prices, shown with the date we read them. They are not a personalized quote, and a student's actual cost will differ with location premiums, the fees the sticker excludes, and pace. Published prices generally assume the program's planned hours; flight training often runs over the FAA minimums, and how extra hours are billed varies by academy (some hold a truly fixed cost, others charge an hourly rate for additional time). Confirm the overage policy with the academy. An accelerated academy does not lower the 1,500-hour airline minimum; only a qualifying degree does, under 14 CFR 61.160. PilotBound is not affiliated with Avia Flight Academy. Disclaimer & removal policy.
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