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Old Jan 14, 2019 | 7:03 am
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Originally Posted by ajnaro
I, for one, found the tool very useful for planning purposes.
Thanks!

I did too ... but the challenge is without a source of flight schedules, is it still useful? No point (doing the work &) resurrecting it, if having out of date flight schedules means it's not useful.

Thanks to zoombee for those ideas & offers of help (I haven't replied yet as I'm watching other posts here first).

Is MM still useful when it only knows about airlines, aircraft & flight schedules from 2013-2014? The key issue to solve here is this...(all the others, domains, hosting, updating the code with rule changes, etc. can be solved). Without current flight schedules, is it helpful? If you look back in this thread, there are countless posts mentioning that certain routes were missing from MM at various times; I always took the approach of fixing the cause of why they were missing (i.e. why weren't the schedules there already) rather than just adding them as reported. Lots of routes got included/added without anyone needing to report them, due to the increase in reliability of the schedule feed. Going back to getting reports of "AAA-BBB is missing, could you please add it" isn't sustainable/scalable and doesn't make the tool useful.
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