One product. Two ways to pay.
Every airline gets the whole platform: the Airline Administration Portal, your own website, ACARS for your pilots, the integrations and support. There are no feature tiers and no pilot limits. Billing is per airline, so one account can run several.
Monthly
Billed monthly by card. Cancel at any time; the airline stays fully active to the end of the paid month.
Start your airlineYearly
About £12.50 a month. Moving from monthly to yearly takes effect at once and is prorated; the other way round takes effect at the end of the year you paid for.
Start your airlinePrices in pounds sterling. Payments are handled by Stripe in vaBase's own pages; card details never reach vaBase.
What is included
The same for monthly and yearly, from the first day. See every feature.
- The Airline Administration Portal for owners and staff
- The website package for your airline, in editable HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- vaBase ACARS for Microsoft Flight Simulator, Prepar3d and X-Plane
- Dispatch with SimBrief, company routes, free flights and your own operating rules
- Flight replay and landing analysis, live map, automated review
- Tours, events, targets, streaks, leaderboards, top landings, ranks and awards
- The Discord bot, webhooks and the read-only developer API
- CSV import and export, including pilots and flight history
- Branded emails your airline can customise
- Staff permissions, two-factor sign-in and an activity log
- Updates as they ship; ACARS updates itself
- Support by email from the people who build it
Your website package on hosting we run for you: 2 GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth and cPanel. Most airlines use hosting they already have; this is for those who would rather not. Arranged by email once your airline exists.
How billing behaves
| If | Then |
|---|---|
| A payment fails | Everything keeps working for a grace period while you update the card. Owners are emailed; nothing is hidden from pilots. |
| The grace period passes | The administration portal goes read-only and the website's data, pilot sign-in and ACARS pause until the balance is settled. Nothing is deleted. |
| You cancel | The airline runs to the end of the paid period, then pauses. Your data is kept for a retention window so you can come back. |
| You run two airlines | Each has its own subscription and its own staff; one account manages both. |
| The price changes | Existing subscriptions keep the price they signed up at. |
Questions people ask
Is there a free trial?
Not at the moment. The monthly plan is the low-commitment way in: one month, cancel at any time.
Do my pilots pay anything?
No. Pilots are your airline's members, not vaBase customers. ACARS and the website are included in the airline's subscription.
Is there a limit on pilots or flights?
No. The only allowance is storage for the files your airline uploads to its library and media, 250 MB included.
I run vaBase 3 today. Do I pay twice?
vaBase 3 and vaBase 4 are separate subscriptions, and cancelling vaBase 3 is yours to do: left alone it renews as usual. If you are on a yearly vaBase 3 subscription with more than a month still to run, email support@vabase.com before you subscribe to vaBase 4. We check the date you have paid up to and start your airline on a free period that runs to it, so the time you have already paid for is not charged again; vaBase 4 billing begins when that period ends. Wait for us to confirm the free period before you go through checkout, because it cannot be added to a subscription that has already started billing.How switching works
Which currencies and payment methods?
Pounds sterling, by card through Stripe. Other currencies are not offered yet.
Start with a month.
Create the account, name the airline, and open the Airline Administration Portal today.