Originally Posted by
EsherFlyer
I've just been looking at the desktop and PDF timetables and there seem to be lots of differences between them: loads of flights missing from the desktop one that I can see in the PDF.
Am I missing some setting that gets them back into the desktop search?
I might try some of the other downloadable ones. Are they any better?
All the products I've tried are awful, probably because they're stand-alone pieces of software someone had to specify (considerable effort itself, to define a complete and accurate program) and pay to have written. Seemingly by the lowest bidder, paid for by a marketing department that would rather be designing brilliant Flash presentations or TV ads.
Tools that access the airlines' operational data bases directly seem to easily provide complete and accurate data (else TA's etc couldn't book flights) but don't necessarily offer convenient search functions for trip planning. Besides the usual ITA recommendation I like skyscanner.com because of its from-Here-to-Wildcard lookup feature.
Hopefully others will add their favorites.