First I’d like you to look at the attached screen capture. It shows a number of scheduled flights in green CUN-BOG and BOG-CUN, plus two in red - GDL-CUN on Thursday followed by CUN-BOG, which then leads into the CUN-BOG-CUN schedule.
What is supposed to be happening is that as a result of re-scheduling this aircraft, which on Thursday morning will be located in GDL, the flight TEQ9999 is a special one-off scheduled flight to transfer the aircraft to its new base in CUN.
However, the flight TEQ9999 (and TEQ4300 is not being scheduled - see second screenshot. Instead, only the "green" flights are being scheduled. This is very strange, because up until now this was a reliable method of getting round the problem of how to schedule the time for a transfer flight.
Any ideas?
UPDATE - I’ve been unable to reproduce this, so probably best regard this as a non-problem.
Two of your flight numbers are in red because you cannot command the plane to fly GDL-CUN after a leg ending in BOG. You need to manually transfer it and to transfer a flight you dont have to make a flight number specially for it.
You may have already noticed that in fleet management, under flight of any particular plane e.g. XA-ACT in your case, there is a function for transfer to any airports with an office.
So just pick the airport where you want that plane to go. The transfer should take about 30 minutes to prepare plus the flight time to the destination. One note about this, your plane must be on the ground,i.e. not in flight, for the transfer to work.
xcoolgen, I know perfectly well how the flight transfer option works, thank you. The plane is in GDL - that’s where it landed after the previous flight schedule which has now been cancelled, as you can see if you look at the second screen shot. The problem with the normal flight transfer option is that you cannot schedule the time when it is supposed to take place. This has been discussed before in the forums, and the workaround is to do exactly what I am doing, which is to schedule a single one-way flight for the time of day that the transfer is supposed to take place.
I have used this method several times in the past and it now apparently no longer works.
So the question is, why does this no longer work? Have the AS developers changed something?
I think you may need to add flight #1371 back into your schedule temporarily, then 9999 will go green. Once that has happened you will be able to delete 1371 again.
Well, that’s a memory test you’re asking, but it was outside the 3 day window.
I’m planning some more scheduled transfers coming up over the next week, I can run this again. Obviously the window for this one has elapsed yesterday, and I had to do an unscheduled transfer.
UPDATE - well, after doing some more scheduled transfers (may I should call them repositioning flights), it looks like the system does work as intended - this time I left a whole 4 days for the one-way flight to get scheduled… the only thing I can think is that the problem I had was that the one-way flight was inside the 3-day window, maybe something to do with the time zone.