Thought I would see how reliable FD7 was in retrieving routes. Tested over a period of one hour, I clicked on every aircraft to trigger a route lookup in FD7.
Of the 41 aircraft that had a Flight ID, only 23 were successful in retrieving route details. That's a success rate of only 56%. I think this illustrates the problem we have with route lookups. Even using FIVE different route lookup sites, even FD7 can only achieve a 56% success rate.
Flight ID From To
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ACA850 CYYC EGLL
ACA898 CYEG EGLL
AF3419
BEE6CM
BMA673 EGPD EGLL
BMR683V
CCPW0O
COA123 EKCH KEWR
CWL91
DAL233 EHAM KSEA
DAL259 EHAM KMSP
DAL261 EHAM KPDX
DAL8 KIAH OMDB
DLH456 EDDF KLAX
EZE32F EGNT EGPD
EZY153 EGGW EGPE
EZY94EG
GFRAL
GFRAP
GFRAR
ICE502 BIKF EHAM
ICE520 BIKF EDDF
KLM669 EHAM KDFW
LNX47CP
LOG57JA
LOG83HB
LOG91DT
OYTWO
QTR52 KIAD OTBD
RAE556 LFPG EGPD
RYR84CL EGPK ESGP
SAS2548 EGCC ESSA
SAS540 EGCC EKCH
SHT17Q EGPH EGKK
SHT18Y
SHT19U
SHT9Z EGPH EGLL
TCX69K EGPF CYYC
TSO594
VIR20X KSFO EGLL
Did some further testing today, and out of 223 flights, FD7 returned different route details compared with Radarbox in 23 instances:
FlightId FD7_Route ANRB_Route
BCY174Z EGPN-EGLC
BDI19C EGPH-EGQK
BEE3LT EGPE-EGBB
BEE51PM EGBB-EGPD
BER7430 EDDL-KLAX EDDM-MUVR
BMR134V EGPD-EGSH
DLH451 KLAX-EDDF KLAX-EDDM
EZE1041 EGPD-EDDH
EZE36X EGGD-EGPD
EZE54G EGPD-EGPO
EZE65L EGPD-EGNV
FPG788 LIRN-LSGG
NJE6BR LFRG-EHAM
RYN557 KRFD-EDDP KSVN-CYQX
RYR1LA EGPH-GCTS
RYR7HJ EIDW-LEMD
SHT17D EGPH-EGKK
SHT9J EGPH-EGLL
UAL901 EDDF-KSAN EDDF-KSFO
UAL907 EDDM-KSFO EDDM-KORD-KSFO
UAL931 EGLL-KLAX KSFO-KLAX
UAL939 EGLL-KSAN EGLL-KDEN-KSAN
UAL941 EDDF-KDEN EDDF-KORD
Which is correct I have no way of knowing!!