With the updates being so regular and frequent, is there ANY way to make the updating be automatic? At least for us, it is very clumsy to update.
You can use the ARM data online at
http://openflights.org , in which case you don't need to do anything at all to update, since the site is already using the new route data.
The interface is, naturally, quite different, but it gets the job done: punch in any airport or airline name into the search box, and it'll show your route maps & data. If there's something you can do with ARM that you can't do adequately with OF, please let me know!