Correct the geography before you compare the price. The flying happens at Mysuru and Kurnool, not at the base this academy is still named for on half the internet.
The first thing to fix about this academy is not its price but its address. A great many pages, including some that look authoritative, still place it at Pondicherry. The flying now happens at Mysuru in Karnataka and at Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, and if you are planning where you will live for eighteen months that correction matters more than a few lakh either way.
The pricing is enquiry-gated. The academy's own courses page routes you to a form rather than to a number, which is the most common arrangement in Indian flying training and the reason this directory exists in the shape it does.
What we have instead is one genuinely published figure that is more than a decade old and attached to the base the academy has left, and one current-ish figure we cannot date. Both are below, both labelled for what they are, and neither is a price. The old one is included because a dated historical figure is honest evidence of where this academy sat once, and it is clearly marked so nobody mistakes it for today.
| What | Our source records |
|---|---|
| Registered name | Orient Flights Aviation Academy, which is also how it is commonly known |
| Bases | Mysuru, Karnataka and Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh |
| Aircraft | None named in our source, so we name none |
| Courses | Commercial pilot licence |
| Figures checked | 15 June 2026 |
| What you pay for | Amount | What the figure is |
|---|---|---|
| Licence course, at the current bases | about ₹35,00,000Reported | We cannot date this one, which is why it is Reported and why we would not build a budget on it. |
| Licence course, at the Pondicherry base, from an old published fee | ₹26,00,000Published | Historical only. Published once, long ago, at a base the academy no longer flies from. Not a current price and not comparable to one. |
Licence course, at the current bases: read from student and aggregator reports of uncertain date, checked 15 June 2026. Licence course, at the Pondicherry base, from an old published fee: read from a historical published fee, more than a decade old and no longer offered, checked 15 June 2026.
Every figure above was read somewhere other than the school, because the school's own price is Not publishedon the academy's own courses page, checked 15 June 2026
Admission runs through the enquiry form on the academy's own site, which is also where the fee conversation starts, so expect to ask for the price rather than read it.
Ask which of the two bases you would fly from, because they are in different states and the living cost and the travel home are not the same.
The current course fee is not published anywhere on the academy's own site, only requested through a form.
The split of training between the two bases is not published, so how much time you spend in which state is unknown before you enrol.
Nothing above is the whole cost of becoming a pilot. Our pilot training cost in India page has the full stack from the medicals to the type rating, and CPL course fees in India puts this school's licence figure next to the rest of the market.
Not any more. The flying happens at Mysuru and Kurnool. Pages still placing it at Pondicherry have not been updated, and that includes some that quote fees alongside the wrong location.
Because it is the only figure this academy ever put in public, and a clearly dated historical number is evidence. It is labelled as historical precisely so it cannot be read as current.
Ask for the fee in writing, for the current intake, naming which base the flying happens at. Both parts matter here, and the second one is the part people forget to ask.