Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Add to airline schedule?

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Add to airline schedule?

DVA11283
Captain, B737-800

Joined on January 19 2013
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Century Club
Everett Century Club

Willemstad, Curaçao Curaçao

172 legs, 415.1 hours
64 legs, 113.8 hours online
171 legs, 413.0 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 09 2014 15:47 ET by Alex Mollen

I had the fortune recently to visit Brazil so consequently I'd like to do some flying there.

I was delighted to see that I can fly GOL airlines on Delta Virtual but I was disappointed to see that there are only very limited flights available. For instance, I found only 3 flights out of SBSP while that airports is crawling with GOL airplanes anytime of the day or night.

As far as I understand the system, I can't just fly a flight that is not in the system and get ACARS credit for it. I'd be willing to put some effort in defining (part of) a realistic schedule for GOL (i.e. taken from real data) but does Delta Virtual accept that? What format would I use and to whom would I send it?

Alex Mollen

Captain, B737-800

DVA11591
Senior Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on July 02 2013
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fleet Master
Online Twenty Century
US Coastal Club
Events Double Century Club
Five Million Mile Club
US Mountaineer Club
B757 100 Club
Tri-Millennium Club
Tin Dispatcher
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Left foot dead foot, verified! Feather Left!"
Daytona Beach, FL

3,271 legs, 11,709.7 hours
2,885 legs, 10,250.1 hours online
3,142 legs, 11,149.0 hours ACARS
326 legs, 874.1 hours event
274 legs dispatched, 316.5 hours

Posted onPost created on September 09 2014 15:55 ET by Soonho Lee

Delta Virtual Airlines buys real world Delta Air Lines and its codeshare airline's schedules quarterly(if I remember correctly). Therefore, if DAL doesn't codeshare routes with them, they will not be added to our schedule.

Soonho Lee (DVA11591)

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
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Millennium Club
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Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours
840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online
1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours
CURRENTLY LOGGED IN

Posted onPost created on September 16 2014 08:53 ET by Andrew Vane

I believe Soonho is correct. Not all flights by a partner airline are considered "codeshare" with Delta and that's why they don't show up in our schedule database.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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