Question about "My Flights" app [service ends on 31 Dec 2017]
May 26, 2016, 3:48 am
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Not a BA issue by definition unless maybe you are on a JAL Avios redemption.
If flying to Honolulu and probably LAX too, upcoming flights become past flights at the arrival time which is before the departure time. In my case I'm flying at 8.40pm to HNL from ICN and I arrive about 11 hours before I left. So since I woke up this morning my upcoming flight has been a past flight. Took me a while to figure out why it says flight completed already and that's because it's 6.44pm here and my flight ended at 9.40am also today.
If flying to Honolulu and probably LAX too, upcoming flights become past flights at the arrival time which is before the departure time. In my case I'm flying at 8.40pm to HNL from ICN and I arrive about 11 hours before I left. So since I woke up this morning my upcoming flight has been a past flight. Took me a while to figure out why it says flight completed already and that's because it's 6.44pm here and my flight ended at 9.40am also today.
May 26, 2016, 3:59 am
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May 26, 2016, 4:00 am
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Whether the flight is in the future or the past is not dependent on the local time. If for some reason the device's local time is used instead of a fixed reference timezone, I would still class that as a bug, especially for a travel app.
May 26, 2016, 6:54 am
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Well it depends on what time zone you are in surely? If the local flight time in LAX is 1800 but you are set to UK time on your device then to an app taking the time from the device it would appear that 1800 was 8 hours in the past. I am sure you could work it so the app would detect your location and calculate time from there, but I personally don't wish to be tracked by any more apps than necessary.
May 26, 2016, 8:07 am
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If the local flight time in LAX is 1800 but you are set to UK time on your device then to an app taking the time from the device it would appear that 1800 was 8 hours in the past. I am sure you could work it so the app would detect your location and calculate time from there, but I personally don't wish to be tracked by any more apps than necessary.
The main exception to this is Microsoft Windows, which does the reverse: it keeps track of local time and the local timezone and from this can derive GMT on request.
When you are an app and you want to know what the time is, you specifically ask for either the local time or GMT depending on your requirement.
May 30, 2016, 9:40 am
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Anyone else having problems with the app at present? I've tried to add a new booking on my iPhone and keep getting told it can't find the booking. I've tried to login on the website, and it won't let me, but no error message, and I've just tried logging in on my iPad and get told it can't login
May 30, 2016, 9:45 am
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Unfortunately not.... It's going offline I'm afraid.
I've reached what I believe is a final impasse in being able to access the Amadeus data.
Thanks to everyone who's supported the app over the last 8 years, this has been far bigger than I ever imagined.
I've reached what I believe is a final impasse in being able to access the Amadeus data.
Thanks to everyone who's supported the app over the last 8 years, this has been far bigger than I ever imagined.
May 30, 2016, 10:05 am
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Is this just a technical problem? I imagine Amadeus bookings are still viewable with other tools such as checjmytrip so is there any way to solve the issue? Hopefully some suitably app literate folks can help as this would really be devastating if myflights comes to an end.
May 30, 2016, 10:20 am
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May 30, 2016, 10:57 am
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