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Originally Posted by
cheaptom
I set up a flight schedule change alert and received EF notice this morning. Per the EF alert, my flight LAX-MIA leaves an hour earlier, but still arrives at same time. That seemed odd. Checked the AA app and website, and they show no changes. I'm going to call AA and verify, but for now, this seems like a false alert or else EF is an outstanding resource and well ahead of AA.com
The schedule change alert is based on the Flight Details results which in turn come from the schedule the airline publishes in the GDS. If you need further help please email us the details.
I've seen a few spurious schedule change notifications too. On these occasions, the new "schedule" has been obviously implausible. When I've reset the alert, a further notification then comes back on the next reporting cycle showing the schedule going back to the original times.
I know that EF faithfully reports that which the GDS says, but is there perhaps a problem with the underlying data source that EF is using?
Here's one example of this, notified last week. NB: The 2310 departure and 0450 arrival were always the correct times. The "1620" arrival was clearly implausible and wrong, so this notification was immediately identifiable as spurious. But not all such notifications would be.
The first notification said this:-
For: BA32
From: HKG to LHR
Departing: 15/09/19 23:10
Arriving: 16/09/19 4:50
New Flight Schedule:
From: HKG to LHR
Departing: 15/09/19 23:10
Arriving: 16/09/19 16:20
The second notification said this:-
For: BA32
From: HKG to LHR
Departing: 15/09/19 23:10
Arriving: 16/09/19 16:20
New Flight Schedule:
From: HKG to LHR
Departing: 15/09/19 23:10
Arriving: 16/09/19 4:50
And here is another example that dropped into my inbox this morning. Spot the implausibility:-
For: QF7
From: SYD to DFW
Departing: 26/10/19 13:35
Arriving: 26/10/19 13:00
New Flight Schedule:
From: SYD to DFW
Departing: 26/10/19 13:35
Arriving: 29/10/19 21:37