The aircraft insurance market might have slightly softened over the last year or so, but ForeFlight, developer of the popular aviation app, says it has created an aircraft insurance shopping experience designed for the 21st century with its ForeFlight Insurance Marketplace. “As easy as buying car insurance,” it says. It’s a 100% online platform (available within the ForeFlight Mobile app) that’s used for creating the initial insurance application to servicing the account once the policy is written. Using digital quoting, the program shops the policy among multiple underwriters and based on the data submitted, can generate quotes in under a minute (well-qualified applicants, it says, can get answers in 30 seconds).
ForeFlight says the digital-first concept streamlines the process because it eliminates having to upload documents and talk with someone on the phone, plus you can compare quotes side-by-side. Since loyalty could matter some in the current aircraft insurance climate, ForeFlight says your current broker will not know you used the Aviation Insurance Marketplace to gather other quotes.
For co-owned aircraft, ForeFlight says you can add up to five pilots on one insurance policy (plus it can work with small Part 135 operations), but any more than five pilots on one aircraft pushes the policy into flying club territory—which ForeFlight Insurance Agency can also do, but through a different process. Since the Insurance Marketplace utility is embedded within the ForeFlight Mobile app (and on desktop), there’s an option to import flight time data from the ForeFlight Logbook and Aircraft tabs.
Recall that ForeFlight and Jeppesen (Boeing companies) were purchased in 2025 by Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm. But even before that, ForeFlight created an online aviation insurance shopping estimator utility where users could keep their current insurers honest and get an idea of how their rates might compare with others with similar model aircraft and piloting experience. Our experience is that rates can widely vary among carriers and it’s worth it to regularly shop around, especially as you earn new ratings and complete training.
With ForeFlight’s Insurance Marketplace utility, the fine print says that insurance coverage is sold through ForeFlight Insurance Agency LLC, which is a licensed insurance agency and not an insurance underwriter. We’re preparing an aviation insurance market report for an upcoming Smart Aviator feature.
As a desktop or standalone app, knock yourself out, if embedded in my flt SW, a Pandora’s box that needs to get hammered shut.
Indeed. It adds unnecessary complexity to an increasingly complex app, so more chances for programming bugs to creep in and affect the rest of the app.
Really? A sales tool embedded in an EFB? I wonder how much money FF is making off of it on the backs of their users.
This is a strange feature to add to Foreflight. Insurance is complex and I prefer having my human being broker who knows me shop for quotes and set me up with a carrier, once a year. My plane is a six figure asset. I’m not entrusting its coverage to some AI bot.
How long until they start including insurance ads in the app? If they’ve gone this far, it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” they add this as a “feature”.
The next step is using your foreflight track logs and briefings to determine you dont fly in a way that is low risk and your policy gets cancelled.
Yes, my first thought was this sounds like a possible insurance tracking device the auto insurance industry is promoting without end. Of course they advertise your rates could go down with good driving, but ‘could’ is a pipe dream.
100% agree. As a matter of self interest, the very last thing I want is for my insurer to be able to review every aspect of my flying. I know I bounce almost every landing… I don’t want data collected that proves it.
Another reason to use Avare.
I guess the unfortunate follow up question to their potential internal use of tracking SW related to pricing insurance is whether they are selling our tracking info to the insurance industry already (or plan to)…haven’t dug down into FF data sharing agreement in a while.to verify either way…
I was an early customer and the experience was fine. It’s a nice UI and allows for a bit more modern interaction and self-service. The actual broker/agency people behind it were a lot more responsive than AOPAs partner who is now owned by Gallagher.