Does anybody exprerience lagging in the ORS system?
I.e. you have a flight "booked" as can be confirmed on your aircraft page.
But when you go to the ORS menu and try to find the flight, it is simply not there. With the result that no passengers are being booked (zero-nil-nada on what I know are lucrative routes).
Sometimes it shows up in ORS many hours (or a full day) later, so demand calculation on the starting airport is executed only twice for this flight.
(BTW if you discontinue the flight and delete the flight number, the already booked flights for the next three days will not update with more passengers even though you do not cancel them)
Asked support once about this, and the answer I got is "it's there" when it was not... as if I did not check it properly. I see this quite fairly often.
A couple of things. The "game status" link at the bottom of the page will tell you if the task to enter flights into the ORS is running slow. It should run every 30 minutes, but if it's late you can see here.
The other is that the flight is only visible in the ORS and available for bookings 3 days before the end of the flight, however it's scheduled 3 days before the start of the flight.
Let's say you have a flight that operates from 0800 - 1300. It's entered as scheduled on the first sweep of the "Enter flights into the ORS" after 0800 - so at the latest by 0830 (3 days earlier). However it cannot pickup bookings and is not visible in the ORS until after 1300 (3 days earlier). So for around 4.5 to 5 hours you can see the flight as scheduled, but it's not in the ORS and it cannot receive bookings.
A couple of things. The "game status" link at the bottom of the page will tell you if the task to enter flights into the ORS is running slow. It should run every 30 minutes, but if it's late you can see here.
The other is that the flight is only visible in the ORS and available for bookings 3 days before the end of the flight, however it's scheduled 3 days before the start of the flight.
Let's say you have a flight that operates from 0800 - 1300. It's entered as scheduled on the first sweep of the "Enter flights into the ORS" after 0800 - so at the latest by 0830 (3 days earlier). However it cannot pickup bookings and is not visible in the ORS until after 1300 (3 days earlier). So for around 4.5 to 5 hours you can see the flight as scheduled, but it's not in the ORS and it cannot receive bookings.
That kind of confirms my suspicions. But isn't this a bug then? If you have some long-haul flights, or even some unluckily scheduled short-haul flights, it will only get through two demand calculations, not three.