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Hi Guys!
I hope, this matter was not already discussed in another topic, at least i did not found one.
In the past view weeks, i observe the phenomenon, that sometimes all or nearly all of the most commonly used charter planes (B737, B738, A320, currently the DHC6-300 as well) are booked and so not available for other pilots. First i thought, we are so many pilots now that we should think about increasing parts of the charter fleet. But then i saw, that many of these bookings are more than 5 days old and were not yet reported to release the aircraft for booking again. In german we would call these bookings "Karteileichen" - dead files (... ok, i should stop translating such nonsense
)
Of course it happens, that a pilot books a flight, then things in real life happen that keep the pilot from flying but makes him forget to unbook the flight (happened to me as well in may, unfortunately with our very only B77F ). No big deal about it, that was solved by automatic unbooking when the flight was not reported within three days (at least i think that this was an automated feature).
As you can read above, this automated feature seems not to work for a few weeks now.
I don't know if it is a big deal for the admin of the booking system to take a look over it? It would improve the availability of our fleet (of course i can fake a A321 charter with a B738, but landing in TNCS with anything else than a Twin Otter :? )
Greetings, Tom
I hope, this matter was not already discussed in another topic, at least i did not found one.
In the past view weeks, i observe the phenomenon, that sometimes all or nearly all of the most commonly used charter planes (B737, B738, A320, currently the DHC6-300 as well) are booked and so not available for other pilots. First i thought, we are so many pilots now that we should think about increasing parts of the charter fleet. But then i saw, that many of these bookings are more than 5 days old and were not yet reported to release the aircraft for booking again. In german we would call these bookings "Karteileichen" - dead files (... ok, i should stop translating such nonsense
) Of course it happens, that a pilot books a flight, then things in real life happen that keep the pilot from flying but makes him forget to unbook the flight (happened to me as well in may, unfortunately with our very only B77F
). No big deal about it, that was solved by automatic unbooking when the flight was not reported within three days (at least i think that this was an automated feature).As you can read above, this automated feature seems not to work for a few weeks now.
I don't know if it is a big deal for the admin of the booking system to take a look over it? It would improve the availability of our fleet (of course i can fake a A321 charter with a B738, but landing in TNCS with anything else than a Twin Otter :? )
Greetings, Tom