There is a lot of info in the public domain, but it is not centrally collated. Airnav need a single source. Currently their source is flightstats. The person that can produce a breakdown of Easyjet Alpha-numeric tie-ups cannot give you data for China Southern Airlines or Chautauqua or Webjet Brazil or OLT Germany or New Zealands Great Barrier Air. You seem to think Airnav are UK centric and must oblige all the UK market. They are not, they must oblige the worldwide market. Airnav need one source for these all. Flightstats do a good job, but to tie up all routes for all worldwide airlines would require a team of around 200 worldwide correspondents constantly monitoring it. No company in the world would dedicate those resources to this hobby.
Airnav take the best current central info currently available on the web, that flighstats provide, at not inconsiderable cost. They have given you the best solution in that they created an open architechture database for you to update records that you find from the 6-7000 open source public domain sources for flight details. If you have a beef about routes, take that up with Airnav's supplier Flightstats. Airnav do a great job providing the architecture you need to modify the central data to suit your region.
Thanks for that ACW367. A couple of points I would make:
"You seem to think Airnav are UK centric and must oblige all the UK market. They are not, they must oblige the worldwide market."If the product is marketed and sold in the UK, then the UK buyer/subscriber has every right to expect that details of "local" airlines such as Ryanair, Easyjet etc are fully covered. These are not peanut operations with half a dozen planes and they form a substantial part not only of the UK picture but of the European picture as well.
"Worldwide market" does not define a product that has different but limited applications in different countries - it defines a product that can be used satisfactorily in all countries in which it is intended to be sold and used. TV, car or kettle, it has to be fit for purpose. Also "if I have a beef" about anything, I don't take it up with a components supplier, but the manufacturer.
Secondly :
"Airnav do a great job providing the architecture you need to modify the central data to suit your region"For me this is the nub of the matter. If I accept your view that worldwide coverage of all details of all aircraft from a single source is economically (and physically) a non-starter, then provision for simple idiot-proof manual updating on a local basis is the alternative. That means for many of us a quick download of collected & collated information such as Dave has provided above.
This is where I own up to and accept my singular lack of technical knowledge. Are you saying that I should be able to manually update my own routes database? If so, it is presumably sufficiently easy enough for me to take Dave's route information and just fire it in to my PC?
The final question then is how do I do it please?
