Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Schedule Error? B717 MUC-GSP

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Schedule Error? B717 MUC-GSP

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Posted onPost created on February 14 2021 08:15 ET by Kevin Sullivan

Was searching out flights to complete the Carolina Club and noticed that Greenville, SC (GSP) has a flight scheduled from Munich, Germany in a Boeing 717-200. (DL131 Leg 3). Just wanted to put it out there to see if anyone wanted to fix. If not, it would be interesting to see that PIREP! wink

Thanks,
Kevin

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Posted onPost created on February 14 2021 15:15 ET by Peter Klijnstra

The schedules are full of such errors Kevin. I've no idea how those schedules are made up but I don't pay attention to it anymore. I mostly check FR24 for the right aircraft as far as I already don't know it myself.

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Posted onPost created on February 15 2021 14:22 ET by Matthew Gervais

DO IT!

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Posted onPost created on February 15 2021 14:30 ET by Gaston Doval

If you take a look at the flight info it says DL131 LEG 3, which means that flight NUMBERS had two previous legs. US3 usually tend to do this as a commercial way to keep flight numbers for a certain route even though that same flight number is not operated on by the same metal.

Leg 1 of the flight was MUC-ATL, on a 764:

DL131 Leg 1 B767-400ER Munich Germany (MUC) to Atlanta GA (ATL) 11:00 CET 15:51 ET 10:51 0 4,790 mi

DL131 Leg 2 should then be ATL-GSP on a 717 (not leg 3). But the whole commercial purpose of this was to sell GSP-MUC under the same flight number. It's probably the case that when the schedule was loaded, the system mixed up the legs at O/Ds since these routes are usually filed three times in a reservations system:

DL131 MUC-ATL
DL131 ATL-GSP
DL131 MUC-GSP - that's why you are seeing it as leg 3.

Matthew Gervais wrote:

DO IT!

LOL. I strongly encourage it. Make sure a KC10 follows you around tho.

Cheers!

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Posted onPost created on February 15 2021 16:36 ET by Luke Kolin

That entry should never have been imported. That's a multi-leg flight.

Cheers!

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Posted onPost created on March 30 2021 09:00 ET by Luke Kolin

This has been resolved with Golgotha 10 but I will need to reimport the raw Delta schedule. As part of this I am going to switch the effective dates now that DST is in effect.

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