This has been suggested before. The problem is that if the replacement aircraft has a longer turnaround time than the existing one then you can’t simply replace the schedules one for one, you have to shift them -and then you can run into slot conflicts. This means in any case that a purely automatic solution is in general not possible without human intervention.
Nevertheless, I think that asking whether the number of mouse clicks can be reduced is a good question. The current procedure involves looking at the existing aircraft schedule, noting the routes and flight numbers, and then:
For each route:
Route management -> find route -> click tab for flight# -> scheduling -> select days -> dropdown box for selected aircraft -> adjust departure times - we are now on page [url="http://tempelhof.airlinesim.aero/app/flights/routes/number/xxx/segment/a.b"]http://xxx.air...xxx/segment/a.b[/url] - and apply.
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The main weakness of the current system is that I need to collect all the routes and flight numbers manually that are used by the particular aircraft.
http://xxx.air.../xxx/tabs/a.b.cThe current system does let us go from Aircraft - schedule - click schedule to start planner for flight# to put us on a page - but from there it does NOT let us change the assigned aircraft. Why? Because we are on the wrong page. We need the scheduling page which is under flights/routes, and if we start with the aircraft we are under fleets/aircraft. Can we get to the right page? Good question - I suspect that the answer is no, on account of the way the web application is designed as a tree structure, but only the developers can really answer that.