About AvFees
AvFees shows what FBOs and airports actually charge, taken from real invoices. It is a VOL and ForIT company; ForIT builds and runs it.
What AvFees is
AvFees records the handling, ramp, facility, landing, parking, overnight, de-ice and other fees FBOs and airports charge, by airport, FBO, aircraft class and date, so an operator or a dispatcher can price a stop before the invoice arrives.
Where the fees come from
Every figure comes from an invoice an operator contributed, uploaded through the API or forwarded by email to invoices@avfees.com, or from a single fee line an operator reported. Each invoice is read into fee lines. Tail numbers, operator, crew and passenger names are stripped before a fee line is stored, and the fee database keeps only a fingerprint of the invoice file. Data & privacy lists exactly what is kept.
Nothing an operator contributes is shown to anyone until that operator has consented to share it. A figure from an invoice is labeled observed, with the date it was seen. The invoice is still the final word on what a stop cost; AvFees does not quote prices on an FBO's behalf.
Give to get
Contributing earns lookup credits, with more for FBOs that have no recent data, and a lookup spends them. A monthly subscription gives unlimited lookups and AI forecasts for FBOs and aircraft classes with no invoice yet. A forecast is always labeled as projected, with a confidence score and the observations it was built from. How it works has the details.
Built for dispatch tools and AI agents
AvFees is an API first. Four operations cover it: report_fee, submit_invoice, lookup_fees and credit_balance. They are described in OpenAPI and served as MCP tools, so a quoting system or an AI assistant can look up fees directly. The API & MCP docs explain keys and sign-in.
AvFees is a VOL and ForIT company
VOL (VOL Private Aviation Inc.) is based in Montréal and builds the reservation, workforce and regulatory software that Canadian business aviation runs on, for operators, brokers, aircraft owners and flight departments. AvFees is the fee-data product of VOL and ForIT. VOL's other products are Digital Reservation, which takes a charter flight from quote to signed and paid reservation in one flow, AvPosts, the Canadian aviation job board, AvRegs, which makes the Canadian Aviation Regulations searchable with peer discussion, and an Owner Portal for aircraft owners, coming soon. Each VOL product is scoped around a role that already exists on an operator's team and is built by people who work in business aviation.
VOL also backs BAT Pros (Business Aviation Technology Professionals), the independent, vendor-neutral community for the people who run technology in business aviation, and its annual BAT Summit. Like AvFees, both are powered by ForIT.
Powered by ForIT
ForIT (Forward Information Technology) provides fractional CTO and CIO leadership, managed IT services and software development to airlines and charter operators, including Part 135, Part 121, CAR 704 and CAR 705 operations. Its fractional CTO and CIO service plans an operator's technology work, manages its applications, contracts and vendors, and builds software with AI tools when existing products cannot do the job. Its software development and managed IT services cover custom applications, integrations, Microsoft 365 dashboards, a managed service desk and technology project delivery.
ForIT is a Microsoft partner and Cloud Solution Provider, a member of the Canadian Business Aviation Association and the National Business Aviation Association, and presented on the CBAA Innovation Stage in 2026 on how operators can build their own software with AI. It was founded in 2020 by Benjamin Thomas, its chief executive, who works as a fractional CTO and CIO for airlines and charter operators. ForIT LLC is based in Seattle and ForIT Canada Inc. in Toronto.
ForIT designs, builds and runs the AvFees software, including the invoice reader, the email intake, the API and the MCP server, and handles support for the site. The team that plans technology for operators is the team that ships AvFees, so the fee data is organised the way an operator prices a stop: by airport, FBO, aircraft class and fee type.
How VOL and ForIT work together
AvFees is built by two companies with different jobs. VOL owns the product and decides what the fee data should do for operators, dispatchers and flight departments. ForIT writes and runs the software. Product decisions and daily engineering happen in the same conversation, so a problem an operator raises one week can be live on the site the next.
On the VOL side that work is led by Shaan Bhanji, who also sees the operator's side of business aviation in his role at Fast Air. He collects feedback from operators and tells the team where the process falls down. On the ForIT side Benjamin Thomas and a development team build the invoice reader, the email intake, the API and the MCP server, and run the service day to day.
The two companies share the same goal: accurate FBO and airport fees from real invoices, labeled clearly as observed or projected, that an operator can price a trip with. Feedback from anyone using the site goes to both teams through the contact page.
Questions or corrections
If a fee looks wrong, you want your contributions removed, or you have a question about your account or a subscription, contact the AvFees team.