Long routes made easy

[Sundaypilot]

I think creating long routes should and could be a lot easier.
(meaning routes over 24 hours long, you cannot add full week at once, but you have to create every day as separate route)

I think it could work something like this:
1. Create route for one day only (just as you do now)
2. Press "add next day" button (before accepting route)
It would automatically select next weekday and takeoff time from return time of first flight +turnaround time between flights.
You could select the turnaround time between days just like you do for the flight.

You could add new days until your week is full (flight overlapping first one).

So result would be following schedules added at once:

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[Jps]

This would make it easier to create long routes for the same aircraft. Hope it's not too hard to make?

[jagalubnan]

What about allowing any route over XXXX nm the ability to schedule in 2-week increments, therefore you could do 1-3-5-7-2-4-6, and then over again?

[Seattle]

why not just do 1-3-5 and then 2-4-6 on a plane.... or 1-3-5 & 6 and then 2-4 and another Longhaul flight 5 or 6

Thats what I typically do and if it really long then it do

1-3-5 and 2-4-6




(I do agree your way would make it easier and les time consuming, but you way isnt a piece of cake either )

[Sundaypilot]

Maybe not that simple in all cases, but if your route is close to 24 hours rotation it would work nicely...
You can setup 6-days rotation so, that all operations are during daytimes (if the destination timezone is right)

Something like this:
mo 07:00 - tu 08:00 (route is 25 hours long)
(turn 2 hrs)
tu 10:00 - we 12:00
we 14:00 - th 15:00
th 17:00 - fr 18:00
fr 20:00 - sa 21:00
sa 23:00 - su 24:00

You get optimal usage of the aircraft with just enough brake for A-check.

[Ile]

I think there is only couple of cases when that kind of generator could work.

I typically try to pick shorter flight, 18 hours for example, and create routes like this:
AC1: 1-3-5 long route, 2-4-6-7 short route
AC2: 2-4-7 long route, 1-3-5 short route, 1 another short route
AC3: 6 long route, and couple of another leftover routes

[tofen]

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if you could assign aircraft based on days that the flight is flown, instead of having to create many different flights?
Just have seven (one for each day off departure) drop down menus where you can choose the tailnumber of all aircraft of the chosen model.
And if you try to assign the same aircraft on two days after each other on +24h routes, there should be a pop-up windows that says something about "unable to assigned the chosen aircraft, schedule overlap" when trying to save the settings.

This would also allow the option of using different sized aircraft (within the same family) on different days. (737-300 on Mondays, 737-500 on Tuesdays etc.)

Is there anything in the code that prohibits the implementation of such a feature?