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Q3 2024 Release Notes - Flight Info Direct

Schedules Direct - Update

Overview

This release sees a step change improvement for how data is compiled in Schedules Direct. As a result of this change, several fields see improvements in accuracy and/or completeness. The changes will be made only to file_date values of 2024-08-13 and beyond. Historical views of schedules prior to this will not be impacted.

Detail

  • Freight Class (FRTCLASS) - more records will show the appropriate freight class for the aircraft.
  • Distance (DISTANCE) - a change to the distance formula results in a more accurate representation.
  • Tons (TONS) - more accurate tonnage values taken from carrier configurations.
  • Meals (MEALS)
  • Shared Airline Designator name (SAD_NAME) - all values shown in uppercase to be more consistent with other Flight Info products.
  • Departure and Arrival Cities (DEPCITY, ARRCITY) - changed to reflect IATA city groupings more accurately.
  • Aircraft type ICAO (EQUIPMENT_CD_ICAO) - improved mapping between IATA aircraft and relevant ICAO aircraft code.
  • Flight Number (FLTNO) - leading zeros removed to be more in line with other Flight Info products.
  • Duplicate Services (DUPCARFL) - leading zeros removed to be more in line with other Flight Info products.
  • Aircraft Owner Code (ACFT_OWNER) - improved mapping from data supplied to corresponding name and code.

Key Benefits 


 A few additional key features of this release are:

  • Schedules Direct data will now be published at approximately 02:15 AM UTC meaning customers can work with the data earlier.
  • The data will be captured only 15 mins before release making the published data fresh.
  • Customers will find joining Schedules and Status using appropriate keys more successful resulting in improved quality of results from a combined view.
  • UTC date/time stamp fields will now be more complete meaning the data is more relevant for our customers working in UTC.

No changes are required to be made by customers. If you wish to know more about the changes to any specific field then please contact our support team here

 

Status Direct - Scheduled Departure/Arrival UTC

Overview

This release sees the addition of two fields showing the scheduled departure and arrival times in UTC.

Detail

The addition of these fields means customer no longer have to convert the scheduled departure and arrival times into UTC. The two new fields added are:

  • SCHEDULED_DEPARTURE_DATE_TIME_UTC – The scheduled departure date and time in UTC format.
  • SCHEDULED_ARRIVAL_DATE_TIME_UTC – The scheduled arrival date and time in UTC format.

Features

  •  This data is available in flights from 2019-01-01 

Status Direct - Scheduled Aircraft IATA/ICAO

Overview

This release sees the addition of two fields that show the scheduled IATA aircraft and the scheduled ICAO aircraft.

Detail

Currently Status Direct shows the actual aircraft used based on the tail number but sometimes that data is not available. To ensure an aircraft value is available we are now showing both the IATA and ICAO codes for the scheduled aircraft - this can be especially useful if wanting to filter out certain aircraft.

  • SCHEDULED_AIRCRAFT_TYPE_IATA – the IATA aircraft code supplied in the planned schedule for the operation.
  • SCHEDULED_AIRCRAFT_TYPE_ICAO – the IATA aircraft code supplied in the planned schedule for the operation.

Features

  • This data is available in flights from 2019-01-01

Status Direct - Service Type enhancement

Overview

This enhancement increases the coverage and accuracy of the service type field

Detail

We are now populating the service type from the planned schedule to increase the coverage and accuracy of this value. This field is useful to filter out certain types of operations e.g. I want only want to see passenger operations. For more information on service type click here