Originally Posted by hauteboy

PER-BNE is actually the longest segment in SWP.. but because of the restrictions to PER, SYD-BME-SYD-BME-SYD is probably the longest possible routing. MNL is considered part of Asia.

Originally Posted by hauteboy

Unfortunately, both Africa and Australia are pretty slim when it comes to long segments.
PER-BNE is actually the longest segment in SWP.. but because of the restrictions to PER, SYD-BME-SYD-BME-SYD is probably the longest possible routing. MNL is considered part of Asia.

Originally Posted by santana

I just checked the Qantas website, and there's no direct service between SYD and BME, it's all via PER, so that routing above is invalid. :td:

Originally Posted by NM

Try QF1040 operating on Saturdays. Dep SYD @ 13:35, Arr BME @ 16:45.
And QF1041 operating on Saturdays. Dep BME @ 13:15, Arr SYD @ 19:30.

However, note that these flights cross, so no way to do SYD-BME-SYD without spendina week in BME or travelling one way via PER.

Originally Posted by santana

Unfortunately, it looks like the direct SYD-BME service will only last until the last Saturday of Oct 2004, after that you have to go via PER. I was thinking of doing the OZ legs next year :(

Originally Posted by NM

I susepct it may be seasonal and the Sydney folks like to use Broome as a getaway from their winter. Don't be surprised to see it back next winter (but no promises or inside info from this end :cool: ).

Originally Posted by hauteboy

I've posted a new release of the OWE validator. (I'm going to have to get my own webspace this week - sorry to those of you who aren't Yahoo members and can't try the tool out!! :( )

I've added the ability to use city codes like LON,NYC,WAS etc in the itinerary validator. The actual airport will be displayed below in the segment list. Eg. CAI-LON-VCE-LON-NYC will show in the list as CAI-LHR,LGW-VCE,VCE-LGW,LHR-JFK. Also added support to disallow transiting departure city (LHR-MAN-LHR-XXX is not allowed) or multiple departures from the originating country (MAN-CDG-LHR-XXX is invalid). Also the Nigeria/Ghana Africa rule should be fixed (is LHR-JNB/ACC-LHR-XXX valid? not sure on that one).

I've also added support to show all flights to/from a specific country in the Planner tool. eg. show all flights from France, use 'fr' in the From: field. The codes are the ISO two-digit country codes. Be prepared to wait if you choose 'us' as one of the values. :)

Originally Posted by anandrag

Can you pl let us know where the tool is located nowadays?...

Originally Posted by hauteboy

It's now available at http://jph.bytestacker.com/award.htm

Originally Posted by boltonm

I know I've been away for a long time. Would you mind me continuing to host this, with a pointer to your original, or would you prefer I just took down the old version I had on my webspace?

Originally Posted by hauteboy

...at least put up a pointer to the new version.

Originally Posted by NoWindowSeat

Something seems to be wrong with the otherwise great tool, it doesn't accept some cities like WAW, HEL f.eg.

Just a bug or something wrong with my keyboard? :)

Originally Posted by Viajero

Not a bug; hauteboy will describe this better for you but basically it is a result of the way you do copy+paste; just ensure there are no unwanted carriage returns and/or line feeds and/or spaces at the end of the string that you paste into the edit box, and everything should be fine.

Edited to add: now, if the script did a little parsing of the string, to clean it up before processing, that probably would not hurt. :)