Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - FLIGHT NUMBERS FOR DAL SCHEDULES 2

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | DVA2006 | FLIGHT NUMBERS FOR DAL SCHEDULES 2

AFV936
Captain, B777-300

Joined on April 09 2011
50 State Club
International Tourist
Baby Bus Century Club
Million Mile Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary
Six-Pack Club
Online Quadricentenary Club

Savage, MN

651 legs, 3,027.4 hours
433 legs, 1,648.2 hours online
489 legs, 2,373.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 20.7 hours event
1,190 legs, 4,975.7 hours total

Posted onPost created on June 09 2015 15:42 ET by Richard Bailey

Hello, I've noticed that there are a ton of wrong call signs in the flight schedules I not sure if that's a bug or we are waiting for a update in the fall. Here are a couple of examples :
DL888 in the schedule is KATL-KMSP real world its KMSP-KATL DAL787 in the schedule is KMSP-KSLC real world KDEN-KJFK.

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

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours
837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on June 09 2015 16:18 ET by Andrew Vane

I'm seeing both of those Delta 888 flights from the DVA side. One is Leg 1 and one is Leg 2 (the return). Not sure what the AFVA side is showing. AFVA sees the DL schedules but they might only be the AF/KLM codeshare flights. Brian or Paul will have to speak to this in more detail.

As for DAL787 and some others, there are often changes that the real world Delta makes to aircraft and flight numbers. Our schedule is updated daily but its based on a quarterly update of the proposed new weekly schedule. So, if, over the course of 3 months, Delta real world changes a flight number, it won't necessarily show up in our schedule until the next quarterly update. Updates to the schedule (currently quarterly) cost money so a daily schedule less than 3 months old is pretty good in my opinion considering the cost of being a member of DVA or AFVA. smile

DVA5973
Captain, B757-200

Joined on May 25 2008
B757 100 Club
Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
Flying Colonel
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Atlanta, GA

1,514 legs, 4,691.2 hours
1,459 legs, 4,569.9 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 06 2015 18:02 ET by Joe Coughlin

From my experience assigning DL numbers in RW, you can expect flight numbers to change anywhere from day by day to month by month.

Joe Coughlin (DVA5973)

DVA10170
Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on September 19 2011
Everett Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Two-Year Anniversary
Double Century Club

Eastern Canada

276 legs, 698.5 hours
198 legs, 471.9 hours online
271 legs, 683.0 hours ACARS
5 legs, 6.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 01 2015 09:31 ET by Nicolas Moreau

I have a script to pull all flightaware flights in real time smile

Nicolas Moreau

Captain, B777-200

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
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Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
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"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,306 legs, 9,290.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,964 legs, 8,083.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,342 legs, 9,424.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on November 01 2015 11:14 ET by Luke Kolin

Nicolas Moreau wrote:

I have a script to pull all flightaware flights in real time :)

The challenge isn't that - it's pulling the schedule ahead of time and determining new airports, route pairs, etc. plus code shares. Not to mention that 14,000 API calls a day adds up.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on November 01 2015 11:43 ET by Nicolas Moreau

Luke Kolin wrote:

Nicolas Moreau wrote:

I have a script to pull all flightaware flights in real time :)

The challenge isn't that - it's pulling the schedule ahead of time and determining new airports, route pairs, etc. plus code shares. Not to mention that 14,000 API calls a day adds up.

Cheers!

Yeah, API means that you have to pay for each clicks.. but the schedule database can be updated every single day using cron job or something like that for free with my script. dunno how the BD here is made but everything can be coded smile

Of course, it uses flightaware DB but it can be pulled from any timetable if available. for now, i'm using flightaware.
anyway, I was only saying that I use that from my own to get real flight ID

Cheers

Nicolas Moreau

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on November 01 2015 13:28 ET by Luke Kolin

How are you updating it "for free"?

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on November 01 2015 15:41 ET by Nicolas Moreau

I just coded without using the API
However, the best way is to use it with cronjob every hour
Because script grabs flights registred and done in flightaware. It means that will need like a week or month to get the complete timetable.. But it works... For free

Cheers

Nicolas Moreau

Captain, B777-200

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