While there is a List of Airlines wiki page to help users “get an idea of route coverage and hubs,” it looks like the number of airlines has grown far too large to navigate comfortably.

Some airlines have listed destinations and flight frequencies on their respective pages, but there is no unified format or single location where one can find this information. What do you guys think of having a computerized database of airports/airlines with destinations and flight frequencies? With all the data in one system, flight schedules could be generated automatically and flight durations could be calculated pretty easily from airport coordinates.

I’ve also seen a lot of users seeking destinations for their airline or airlines to serve their airport. Perhaps with a better system, we could streamline this process and allow airlines/airports to serve dozens or hundreds of destinations instead of being subject to the chances of whoever replies to the post.

I think this should be pretty simple to code and host on a third-party server… I am just wondering if people are willing to use such a tool. What do you think?

Discussion

Comment from BMSOUZA on 7 May 2017 at 09:39

I understand what you want to say, and in some points I agree.

I had a lot of work when I decided detailing the Airport in Campo Verde, looking in each airline wiki page to set in the building all the airlines companies with flights to that city, hehehe

Comment from wangi on 7 May 2017 at 10:01

Isn’t http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Where_to_fly the answer to some of your points?

Comment from Sarepava on 7 May 2017 at 10:04

Too soon. There are ‘destinations’ cities which are no more than a pin in a map and the airport is just a runway and a purple airplane symbol. If this goes ahead, there should be a rule that the airport and city has a minimum level of completeness and accuracy. And half the world isn’t even open for mapping.

Comment from Leowezy on 7 May 2017 at 10:40

I agree with Sarepava, in the sense that any global flight network we come up with at this point would obviously need to be “work in progress”. But I think that’s no objective to start up a tool as you proposed anyways, after all everything on OGF will always be “work in progress”. I think the main point is coming up with such a tool; if you are able to code such an application, I’m sure many users will be happy to comply.

Comment from Myrcia on 7 May 2017 at 11:31

It is possible, with some work, to develop a fairly realistic airline destination list just using the current system. I think that Dunwic Flyhthæfen International is an example of that, the destinations I have built up over time seem like a good spread, and even though it would be nice to have more, I am happy with what is there.

If you want to build this system I would very much welcome it. It sounds great fun. But I don’t think it’s something essential for the ongoing development of the OGF world.

Comment from trabantemnaksiezyc on 8 May 2017 at 14:38

To be honest I’d rather see a OGF-wide train schedule.

Comment from ADB52 on 8 May 2017 at 20:52

Now that’s a good idea, an international train schedule.

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