I agree 100%, there is a real lack of a good source of route information.

Each airline has its own route maps on their website, most of which are outdated. Furthermore, many of the maps provide very little information, for example the LH maps only show which destinations are "LH" and which are "Partners", without saying who the partner is. The result is much hunting through tables and other airlines websites to understand who REALLY flies to a specific destination. The star-alliance timetable also helps, but to use it you must already know all the airport codes you want.

For example, I recently wanted to understand who flies to anywhere in the south pacific, and I had only two ways to do that:
- enter airport codes for common destinations in the south pacific into the star-alliance timetable software, one-by-one and see the result. Considering I dont know the common destinations or the airport codes, this took a great deal of time!
- go to each website to see their route maps. This was easier because I could just "see" the flights, but it means a trip to each air-lines web site, and then trying to FIND the route maps, if you can find them! some airlines dont even publish them, or they are out of date!

Either way it is a major pain. I havent seen the screen saver, but what I would LOVE to see is a web (or even PC) based service as described above which shows all star-alliance routes colour-coded. It would also be nice if:

1. you could select which airlines to show or not show.
2. you could click on a route or an airport for more specific information.

Thinking about this more, this actually should not be too difficult to build based on the existing star-alliance PC-timetable databases... You would just need some digitized maps and the longitude/latitude for every airport code. Hmmm, maybe I should get some programmers working on this (my firm is an offshore software development company), and then sell it star-alliance!

Anyhow, I propose that we suggest this at the star-alliance chat.

Ron