Hi Curt, On Friday 22 May 2009 17:04:23 Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi Durk, > > Chicago O'Hare airport has just put all their current arrival/departure > information online: > > http://www.ohare-airport.org/ > > Would this be useful at all for seeding our AI traffic system? >
Thanks for the pointer. Information like this is certainly useful, but up until now, I haven't yet been able to build any useful traffic datafiles on the basis of these online time tables alone. In particular, since these tables are (rightfully so) very passenger oriented, they don't contain much information about aircraft types, the actual carrier in case of code shares, For that, an airline time table is usually necessary. But, the more sources of information the better. As an example, when building the EHAM demo, I occasionally encountered Flight numbers that we're listed as having one stop along the way, without the possibility of finding out where the intermediate stop was. IIRC, this was particularly the case with a martinair flight from the Caribbean to Amsterdam. A little googleing usually brings up something, and in this case, I found that the intermediate stop was in Brussels (EBBR). This stop wasn't listed as such in the EHAM timetable, simply because it wasn't relevant for passengers, as you couldn't take that flight between these particular two cities. Cheers, Durk
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