Does AerScheduler have an API?

Yes. AerScheduler exposes a REST API covering 280 endpoints across scheduling, aircraft, maintenance, billing, members, and reporting.

Is the API included in the price?

Yes. API access is included on every plan at no extra cost. There is no enterprise tier and no per-call charge.

How do I authenticate with the AerScheduler API?

With an API key, and only with an API key. Create one in the web console under Settings → API keys, then send it as an Authorization: Bearer header on every request. The secret is shown once, when you create it, so store it then. Only a hash is kept.

Who can create an API key?

Any administrator, from Settings → API keys in the web console. That is deliberately not something a key can do. A key cannot create or revoke another key, even one holding the admin role, so a leaked key can never issue itself replacements.

What can an API key do?

Exactly what the roles you gave it allow. A key behaves like a member holding those roles, and every permission rule that applies to a person applies to it. Give a key the least it needs. A key that reads the schedule should be a dispatcher, not an admin. The owner role cannot be granted to a key.

Only if you set an expiry when you create one. Otherwise a key works until you revoke it, which takes effect on the very next request. Revoked keys stay listed as revoked rather than disappearing, so anything they created still has something to point at.

Is there an OpenAPI specification?

Yes. The machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 document is published at https://api.aerscheduler.com/openapi.json and needs no authentication to read. Point any standard client generator at it to produce an SDK in your language.

Are there rate limits?

Yes, and they are applied per signed-in account rather than per IP, so a whole school behind one office address does not share one budget. 300 requests a minute and 5,000 an hour per account. Every response carries RateLimit-Remaining, and a 429 carries Retry-After.

Can I use the API to build a booking page on my own website?

Yes. Availability, resources, and reservations are all exposed, so you can check an aircraft's free windows and create a booking from your own front end.

AerScheduler API

Book aircraft, close flights out, invoice them, and pull the numbers back. 280 endpoints, described in OpenAPI 3.1, included on every plan.

Quickstart Browse endpoints OpenAPI spec

Auth: API key, no expiry by default
Format: JSON over HTTPS, OpenAPI 3.1
Limits: 300/min per account
Version: v1.0.0

Quickstart

One credential, then you’re working. An administrator creates a key in the console under Settings → API keys. The secret is shown once, right there, and every request after that just carries it. No sign-in step in your integration, and no token to refresh.

1. Store the key

# An administrator creates it in the console:
#   Settings → API keys → Create key
# The secret is shown once, right there.

export AERSCHEDULER_KEY=ask_live_…

2. List your aircraft

curl -s https://api.aerscheduler.com/resources/planes \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AERSCHEDULER_KEY"

# → { "data": [ { "id": 12, "name": "N12345", … } ],
#     "pagination": { "total": 6, "hasMore": false, … } }

3. Book one

curl -s -X POST https://api.aerscheduler.com/reservations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AERSCHEDULER_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "title": "Discovery flight",
    "type": "dual",
    "start": "2026-08-04T15:00:00-06:00",
    "end":   "2026-08-04T17:00:00-06:00",
    "timeZoneName": "America/Denver",
    "resource": { "id": 12 }
  }'

Reference

280 endpoints across 27 areas. Click an endpoint for parameters, responses, and an example request.

Role	May create
owner, admin, dispatcher	solo, dual, ground, guest, sim, rental, maintenance
instructor	solo, dual, ground, guest, sim
student	solo, dual, ground, sim
renter	rental
technician	maintenance

Per account	300 requests / minute, 5,000 / hour
Unauthenticated	100 requests / 5 minutes, per IP
Unauthenticated endpoints	Tighter still, and limited per IP

AerScheduler API

Quickstart

Reference

Conventions

Responses are wrapped

401 and 403 mean different things

Your organization is implied

Money is in cents

Times carry an offset

Parse leniently

Time zones, and why bookings are strict about them

Who can book what

Rate limits

Pagination: what to know before you build

Common questions

Building something?