FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - DONE4 ex-AMM : Comment/Critique Please
View Single Post
Old Jan 14, 2011 | 5:33 pm
  #15  
SQ421
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: cbr
Programs: QF WP (OWE) / LTG (LT OWS) | Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 4,971
Originally Posted by henry999
One small thing I might suggest. There's a convention some of us use for spelling out the routing, and that is to put stops in caps and transits in lower case. Thus AMM-lhr-SYD-nrt-DEL... rather than your AMM-xLHR-SYD-xNRT-DEL... Why do it this way? The reason is that tools such as the Mileage Monkey or the Great Circle Mapper don't care about the case, so one can just copy the string and paste it in without having to then delete all the 'x' notations (and even worse is when, as some people do, the airline code for each flight is also interspersed). The logic behind this method is simple: when asking for help, one should always try to make it as easy as possible for potential helpers.

cheers,

Henry
MileageMonkey actually works just fine with the 'x' notations. Further more, I've always been under the impression that the airport codes are always keyed out in capitals to let the reader read them as such (i.e. read them as airport codes).

FWIW, I doubt any of my queries (or the way they were keyed out) here made it less easy for the potential helpers.

YMMV
SQ421 is offline