Originally Posted by
flightyryan
It's really really not made for that use case, but you may get lucky hacking it with cyberpower's suggestion. We can't condone or provide support for hacking it like this, but I would start with: AA101 • AUS to FRA as the title. and then make sure the start and end times of the event perfectly match the *scheduled* flight time departure and arrival (don't forget about timezones!).
Oof, really? First, thank you for taking the time to reply. But second, again,
oof. You're saying there's no other way to import flights other than:
- TripIt (I can't bulk-add flights to TripIt, it's just as one-at-a-time as Flighty)
- Calendar imports from events generated only from official airline sources
- Forwarded e-mails from only airlines with official itineraries
I guess I'm a bit confused as to how calendar events are ingested: why would calendar events automatically created by, for example, a Siri calendar suggestion be successfully imported, but
not an identically-formatted, manually-created calendar event with literally the exact same information? I am really confused about that. I really don't know how this is "hacking it," as it's just calendar events like any others. Can you help me understand this a little more? It's really tremendously important to me, and I really would like to better understand because, and I know this may sound silly to you, I have spent hours and hours and hours trying to work on this and it would just be
so much more useful for me to just hear, straight up, "that doesn't work, it will never work, your only option is manually adding flights, so move on."
Is there an e-mail template for ingesting data I could use? I can certainly generate e-mails. Or is the long-discussed CSV import going to happen or is that not realistically on the road map?
I'm really just looking for help, here, and just some straightforward answers. I've tried reaching out via the support e-mail and haven't heard a word back, just automated responses.
Thank you again for taking time to help. I do love the app. I am former flight crew and this data is very important to me for a variety of personal reasons. I would not have spent so, so many hours on this, trying so, so hard, if it weren't that important to me.