Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Another schedule question

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Another schedule question

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1,164 legs, 4,141.9 hours
58 legs, 193.8 hours online
1,156 legs, 4,126.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 27 2021 07:50 ET by Peter Klijnstra

Hi,

I did search today for a return flight from LEBL to EHAM and came up with these results:

Really, DC-7's?? with Historic flights excluded.

How is this possible??

Peter Klijnstra

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA497
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171 legs, 325.8 hours online
585 legs, 1,498.3 hours ACARS
7 legs, 13.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 29 2021 03:43 ET by Pablo Fraga

Hi Peter,

That is odd indeed. KLM is still serving the route 2x daily.

You can still file the pirep with any aicraft that suits the route though.

Pablo Fraga

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1,591 legs, 1,457.9 hours
742 legs, 686.0 hours online
1,583 legs, 1,450.4 hours ACARS
41 legs, 58.7 hours event
327 legs dispatched, 343.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 29 2021 20:39 ET by Kevin Lundy

We do have some schedule errors from our last import. Thank you for the post. As Peter said, you can still fly the routes with any aircraft that is rated for the distance.

Kevin Lundy

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2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on March 30 2021 09:23 ET by Luke Kolin

Let me see what is driving this. I had a large backlog of changes that just got cleared out with the Golgotha 10 release so I can see what the cause is (and fix it).

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on March 30 2021 09:28 ET by Luke Kolin

Found it - it's that delightful "EQV" code which stands for "equipment varies". Since everything in the schedule needs to have an equipment code more substantial than "you'll find out when you get to the gate", I'm trying to infer it. It's unfortunately pulling in historic records as part of the process.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on March 30 2021 12:20 ET by Peter Klijnstra

Pablo Fraga wrote:

Hi Peter,

That is odd indeed. KLM is still serving the route 2x daily.

You can still file the pirep with any aicraft that suits the route though.

Hi Pablo,

Yes, I always do that. Checking FR24 for the right aircraft.

Peter Klijnstra

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on March 30 2021 12:25 ET by Peter Klijnstra

Luke Kolin wrote:

Found it - it's that delightful "EQV" code which stands for "equipment varies". Since everything in the schedule needs to have an equipment code more substantial than "you'll find out when you get to the gate", I'm trying to infer it. It's unfortunately pulling in historic records as part of the process.

Cheers!

Thanks for the responses guys. Hopefully this will be solved soon. It's quite annoying getting historic aircraft on an modern route.
Even with historic route excluded.

Peter Klijnstra

Senior Captain, B737-800

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