I can change them on the page for that flight, but that means if I want to change the flight number for 150 flights I need to visit 150 flight pages one at a time.
What would be a sample scenario for such feature?
For a route with hourly departures, having sequential flight numbers. e.g. JFK-LAX XX100 00:00; XX101 01:00 ; etc. LAX-JFK XX124 00:00; XX125 01:00; etc. Doing this makes it really easy to figure out that you are missing a 19:00 departure at a glance because flight number 119 is available.
No, there's no easy way to do it. You can create a plan for your flight number usage before you create your airline, or you can identify a specific range of numbers that you aren't currently using (i.e. 5000-5048) and start renumbering one-by-one.
A scenario may be realigning the flight numbers for a specific hub or type of flight
For instance, express flights may have originally started at 3000 but now that you have grown, you need to change them to 4000. Or if you open a new hub and want to use a specific set of numbers and you already have flights in that range.
It would be nice if we could mass upload/export our flight plans (perhaps in XML or CSV) and I seem to recall that being suggested before and I think that this would take care of everything.
What would be a sample scenario for such feature?
Well, on Quimby I didn't use a flight numbering plan at first because... it's Quimby, it doesn't really matter. But after two weeks I had so many flights that even on a server that was going to be shut off in three months I decided to organize the flight number blocks. By that time though I had about 125 flights. So I had to open the flight page for every single flight and reorganize them.
For instance in flights that are part of a flight bank in my main hub are in the 9000 block. Wave 1 is 90XX, wave 2 is 91XX... the return flights that are configured to best connect IN to that particular wave are 500 higher, so for example, a flight to JFK in wave 2 might be 9104, and the flight from JFK connecting in to wave 2 would be 9604.
It just took a LOT of time to reset the flight numbers. I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this already that I just didn't know about.
When you have 4000 flights you will have no time to spend “organizing” flight numbers. All much easier organized in Excel or other dedicated tool and flight numbering really does not matter then. But that is just my opinion …
When you have 4000 flights you will have no time to spend "organizing" flight numbers. All much easier organized in Excel or other dedicated tool and flight numbering really does not matter then. But that is just my opinion ...
Okay?
Do you just take every opportunity you can to mention that you're good at this sim? I asked a legitimate question that I wanted an answer to. Is my desire for a tool that makes flight number management better unreasonable because the airline I experienced the problem on didn't have thousands of flights?
Why do you think every response is aimed at you? Maybe there is a diagnosis name for that. Anyway, what I wanted to say is there are much better ways to organize oneself in Airlinesim, and doing it by flight numbers to even numbering waves does not make sense. You do it now, and you think it’s cool, but what will you do when YOU have 1000 flights? That is just about 170 planes or so… I will tell you what you will do… you will have dropped that flight numbering scheme halfway there. It will be inconvenient for you and also by that time, you will have forgotten couple of times to number some of your flights by your scheme.
Better way is to create a simple Excel data extraction formula and then you can just copy the flight schedule and immediately see all the flight information there including banks and connections, seeing which banks need strengthening in terms of arrivals and departures. Yes, you can do that by flight numbers, but the flight numbers will not tell you if your banks need more northbound, southbound, westbound or eastbound strengthening, unless of course you create a specific flight numbering scheme for “8 o’clock banks departing westbound on regional jets for distance of 800 to 1500 kilometers”.
Btw your attitude is quite similar to To*******ot (are you family?) so you will probably not see me much giving you any more advise or suggestions in the future. It will not be my loss.
It would be nice if we could mass upload/export our flight plans (perhaps in XML or CSV) and I seem to recall that being suggested before and I think that this would take care of everything.
I do read out the flight plan of an airline for my AS Route Map tool. If you provide me with a format of what you would like to see, or need, I could possibly create an export page for the flight plan in CSV-format.
I just created an Export Page into CSV format with the data that I have. You can access this from the Menu Button on the Routemap page.
Simply save the whole page in your browser with a .csv ending and then open that file in Excel.
Let me know if you have troubles with it.
I am not able to properly import this, everything is on one line, what is the import delimiter?
I tried both importing it and opening up from file explorer. Same result, everything is on one line.
Also I think there is an error after the "Distance" field in heading, shouldn't it be followed by a comma (or string of 3 commas as is the case of the subsequent flight separator)? Right now it is followed by a space and the first city code,
e.g. Distance ADZ
I haven't been able to import it either.
This is the response I got:
Reading flightplan
ASPtear error '800a01f4'
Server returned error information for request
/includes/functions.asp, line 174
@Gkc0123: Which World/Airline did you use?
Regarding the import.
The export uses the vbcrlf at the end of each line. The browser does not seem to display that correctly. For me it works both with Firefox and Internet Explorer. On that page, use the File - Save (Page) As and choose Text File.
When I then open the file in Notepad (or Notepad++, or Textpad) I do see each flight number on a separate line. Also when I double click on the file (with a .csv ending) it opens directly in Excel.
Here is what I did.
Select the Route Map for the airline you wanna have the Flight Plan.
Click on the Menu Button on the top left and select “Export Flight Plan”. A new window will open with the Flight Plan. It will look like all on one line.
Save the full page as a text file and give it a .csv ending.
Once the file is saved, you can either open it with Notepad or I just double clicked on the fpexp.csv file and it opened directly into Excel as below.
To get back to the original idea...
I can understand the original wish and I would very much like to have such a tool as well. My flight numbers are perfectly organised and if I have to insert a flight number it takes me quite a bit of work.
@rubiohiguey: I operate 1500+ planes and don't have any flight numbers available anymore, but still the flight numbers are perfectly numbered (block flight numbers for a certain hub/route, starting with the first flight of the day). So there are some players out there who do it and it's possible. And by the way: It looks muuuuch better on the schedule! :D
@Matth - still no luck properly importing
I saved the HTML page as csv, double clicked, opened up in Excel 2008
result is not formatted properly
OK, I found the problem
for some reason, Firefox is not formatting this properly
After I saved the file in Chrome and IE, it formatted this differently, and opened fine in Excel
This is how it is formatted by Firefox
And this is how it is formatted by Chrome and IE
To get back to the original idea...
I can understand the original wish and I would very much like to have such a tool as well. My flight numbers are perfectly organised and if I have to insert a flight number it takes me quite a bit of work.
@rubiohiguey: I operate 1500+ planes and don't have any flight numbers available anymore, but still the flight numbers are perfectly numbered (block flight numbers for a certain hub/route, starting with the first flight of the day). So there are some players out there who do it and it's possible. And by the way: It looks muuuuch better on the schedule! :D
I don't have as many planes as you do, but I also do it with Aero Nesher on Gatow.
And this is how it is formatted by Chrome and IE
Strange enough, as my Firefox seems to handle it properly. But it's good that you get it to work :)
I also couldn't import the map to ASMAP.info, i got the error;Reading flightplan
ASPtear error '800a01f4'
Server returned error information for request
/includes/functions.asp, line 189
I'm trying to import JSW Air from Quimby