2infinity
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Well I read in today's AFF Gazette that FlightTracker is ceasing from the end of this month. I'm a little disappointed because I like that feature, but progress is progress right? and besides, it's outside my sphere of control, so I must just learn to live with it.
The good news is there are 2 options suggested 1) Openflights and 2) MyFlightRadar24. There are probably many other sites you can use, but I'm not going to go looking for them. I did however have a look at both Openflights and MyFlightRadar24.
Openflights is well just Flight Tracker. I'm guessing AFF just incorporated the programming into their website. So anyone choosing this as a replacement will be quite comfortable as you will be used to how it works. Nothing more needs to be said.
MyFlightRadar24, I'd never heard of. I was aware of FlightRadar24 where you can look at flights in real time. Seems they are the same developers, with MrFlightRadar24 being your individual profile. MyFlightRadar24 is colourful and just looks better and modern. My initial thoughts was, yep, I'll use this, but when I tried to import my Flight Tracker CSV file, less than half came across. So I tried importing into Openflights, also problems. Sigh.
I played around with my CSV file a bit to make it more transferrable and this time all my records imported into MyFlightRadar24. I still needed to spend about 2 hours cleaning my data (202 records). MyFlightRadar24 didn't recognise any of my QF flights so each individual record needed to be looked at, and if you like to know the type of plane you were on, you may need to clean this up on an individual record basis as well. A lot of my Boeing 737 flights showed up as Boeing 73X from import, so needed to change all them to Boeing 737-800 (B738). MyFlightRadar24 didn't recognise 747 planes from the import either and I lost all the departure and arrival times.
So, its all cleaned now except for departure and arrival times. That would just be too much effort.
I'm guessing our AFF profiles will no longer show a link to our 'replacement' Flight Tracker. oh well.
The good news is there are 2 options suggested 1) Openflights and 2) MyFlightRadar24. There are probably many other sites you can use, but I'm not going to go looking for them. I did however have a look at both Openflights and MyFlightRadar24.
Openflights is well just Flight Tracker. I'm guessing AFF just incorporated the programming into their website. So anyone choosing this as a replacement will be quite comfortable as you will be used to how it works. Nothing more needs to be said.
MyFlightRadar24, I'd never heard of. I was aware of FlightRadar24 where you can look at flights in real time. Seems they are the same developers, with MrFlightRadar24 being your individual profile. MyFlightRadar24 is colourful and just looks better and modern. My initial thoughts was, yep, I'll use this, but when I tried to import my Flight Tracker CSV file, less than half came across. So I tried importing into Openflights, also problems. Sigh.
I played around with my CSV file a bit to make it more transferrable and this time all my records imported into MyFlightRadar24. I still needed to spend about 2 hours cleaning my data (202 records). MyFlightRadar24 didn't recognise any of my QF flights so each individual record needed to be looked at, and if you like to know the type of plane you were on, you may need to clean this up on an individual record basis as well. A lot of my Boeing 737 flights showed up as Boeing 73X from import, so needed to change all them to Boeing 737-800 (B738). MyFlightRadar24 didn't recognise 747 planes from the import either and I lost all the departure and arrival times.
So, its all cleaned now except for departure and arrival times. That would just be too much effort.
I'm guessing our AFF profiles will no longer show a link to our 'replacement' Flight Tracker. oh well.