Originally Posted by
L4ibsch
May I still suggest to change the tooltip for the menu entry to "Show codeshares and regionals (recommended)", adding the underlined part?
Good idea, will do, thanks!
Speaking about seasonals, I still find them to be very important pieces of information. ... Would it be possible to add 2 weeks worth of data each about three and six months out?
Not possible now, sorry. Maybe I can add seasonals for Star Alliance and oneworld only though.
The following routes ARE indeed missing and I was wondering if there is a way for you to add them; extended long-hauls. NZ1 LHR-LAX-AKL or UA846 EZE-IAD-SFO come to mind.
The tool displays nonstop flights only, this is why NZ1 is broken into 2 parts. Direct flights that are not nonstop are intentionally filtered out. If you want a route map with bookable flight numbers rather than actual nonstop flights, I would suggest you to have a look at the online Star Alliance RTW booking tool.
"sort routes-from-scraping.dat routes-manually-added.dat | uniq > routes.dat" would prepare the new routes.dat for distribution.
As soon as you allow people to add their own routes, someone needs to take care of removing and maintaining them as well. This isn't likely to happen, and I certainly don't have time to do it either. What usually happens is that someone finds the tool, notices that his favorite airline is missing/incorrect and adds/fixes it per hand. After that, the user moves on and we are left with data that isn't updated automatically and that no one checks or maintains. Even worse are manual corrections to automatically gathered data - since they have to be checked and reapplied after every data collection.
Since the quality of the automatically gathered data is relatively good, I think it is a lesser evil to simply live with the errors/omissions in this data, rather than try augmenting it per hand. Of course, everyone is welcome to create his own routes.dat with improved data.
Maybe this is the right way to tackle the extended long-hauls if collecting them automatically is too cumbersome?
Cumbersome are not extended long-hauls of major airlines (most flyertalkers know them by heart anyway), but regional routes of smaller airlines not belonging to any alliance.
Originally Posted by Austinrunner
The latest version mistakenly shows Comair (MN) as having an extensive route network within Indonesia.
Thanks for noticing. The routes in Indonesia actually belong to Merapi (MNA). Will be fixed in the next update.