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Route history on the booking page

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With Route history switched on, the booking page shows how your airline has flown this route before: how often, how pilots landed, and the wind you can usually expect on arrival.

What the card shows

  1. Book a flight and open it (My flight in the menu, or the link after booking).
  2. On the right, the Route history card counts your airline's flights between the two airports, any flight number: how many, by how many pilots, and when it was last flown.
  3. Softest landing is the gentlest touchdown measured by ACARS on this route, with who made it and when. It says You when it's yours.
  4. Below come the averages: landing rate, fuel, flight time, points and passenger stars, then your own flights here and your softest landing.
  5. Usual arrival wind shows the average wind and the crosswind on the runway that faces the wind most, worked out from the weather report saved with each flight. It uses this month's flights from any year when there are at least three, otherwise flights from any month; with fewer than three reports on record, no wind is shown.

Good to know:

  • Only accepted flights count. Landing rates typed in by hand (a manual PIREP or a claim) aren't used for the softest or the average landing.
  • Pilots who chose to stay off leaderboards or live maps are shown as "A pilot". See privacy settings.
  • The airline's figures are refreshed about every 10 minutes, so a flight filed a moment ago may take up to 10 minutes to show. Your own line is always up to date.
  • On a route nobody has flown yet, the card says you'll be the first.
  • In the EFB, press Open the booking page to see it.

For staff

Switch it on under Staff › Airline settings › Optional features › Booking and dispatch › Route history. It replaces the booking page's Compare card. Nothing is stored for it, so turning it off brings the Compare card straight back.

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