FLIGHT PLAN EDIT ISSUE WHEN ADDING AIRCRAFT
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:22 pm
We've had this happen twice now to two different airline administrators:
Select a specific aircraft with like range to the one we want to add to our routes system (all airports). Then SELECT ALL at the bottom of the page followed by EDIT FLIGHTS. Select ADD A/C then use drop down menu to select new aircraft to add.
Result has been the edit REPLACES all existing aircraft on those routes with the aircraft selected to be added to the routes instead of adding the new aircraft to the existing list of aircraft on the routes.
Totally not cool and if airline admins do not export their master route schedule regularly they will be hosed.
I was able on both occasions to go back and copy/paste the affected flights from our most recent master export txt file into a new batch upload and put all the now missing aircraft back onto the routes in question.
[edited - new information added]
This method does however create "duplicate" flights with the same flight number for both the botched up one that only has the new aircraft and the new batch upload with the previous aircraft. It appears the only way to fix that issue is to go line by line and add the new aircraft to the main flight list and then delete the flight with the single aircraft. Our latest issue affected 954 flight routes and to do that cleanup will take just past forever it seems as one has to wait on the FSA server every time an edit is made line by line. I have yet to see where duplicated flight route numbers are an issue so I am leaving them as is for now.
Select a specific aircraft with like range to the one we want to add to our routes system (all airports). Then SELECT ALL at the bottom of the page followed by EDIT FLIGHTS. Select ADD A/C then use drop down menu to select new aircraft to add.
Result has been the edit REPLACES all existing aircraft on those routes with the aircraft selected to be added to the routes instead of adding the new aircraft to the existing list of aircraft on the routes.
Totally not cool and if airline admins do not export their master route schedule regularly they will be hosed.
I was able on both occasions to go back and copy/paste the affected flights from our most recent master export txt file into a new batch upload and put all the now missing aircraft back onto the routes in question.
[edited - new information added]
This method does however create "duplicate" flights with the same flight number for both the botched up one that only has the new aircraft and the new batch upload with the previous aircraft. It appears the only way to fix that issue is to go line by line and add the new aircraft to the main flight list and then delete the flight with the single aircraft. Our latest issue affected 954 flight routes and to do that cleanup will take just past forever it seems as one has to wait on the FSA server every time an edit is made line by line. I have yet to see where duplicated flight route numbers are an issue so I am leaving them as is for now.