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The DTSData entity must contain either the IATA based keys (FlightId, DepartureAirportIATA, ArrivalAirportIATA) or the ICAO based keys (Callsign, DepartureAirportICAO, ArrivalAirportICAO), or both. Both data sets are preferred. Please provide as much data as possible.
DTSData describes one flight leg with the following information (high level):
- Identification of the flight leg
- Identification of the aircraft
- Information about which kind of flight this is
- Number of passengers and crew on board at departure
- Number of passengers boarding and number of passengers disembarking at the arrival airport
- Number of passengers that sat in the aircraft from the previous flight leg (transit passengers)
- The weight of cargo and mail loaded onto the aircraft at the departure airport
- The weight of cargo and mail unloaded at the arrival airport. This might be different from loaded on multi leg flights.
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| FlightId | IATA based identifier for this flight, usually issued long before the flight actually takes place.FlightId is normally the concatenation of OperatingAirlineIATA, FlightNumber and OperationalSuffix. FlightId typically identifies a flight to the majority of systems, but it is not unique across time. It's unique only in conjunction with FlightDepartureDate. Exception: Some airlines use their ICAO code (OperatingAirlineICAO) instead of OperatingAirlineIATA. This might be because they aren't an IATA member or because they just prefer the ICAO code. Regardless, this means that it is allowed to use OperatingAirlineICAO as part of FlightId. FlightId is then defined as the concatenation of AirlineIATAorICAO, FlightNumber and OperationalSuffix. | | Callsign | A call sign is used to uniquely identify an aircraft using the airspace around a particular airport. Call signs in aviation are derived from several different policies, depending upon the type of flight operation. In most countries, unscheduled general aviation flights identify themselves using the call sign corresponding to the aircraft's registration number. Commercial operators, including scheduled airline, air cargo and air taxi operators, will usually use an ICAO or FAA-registered call sign for their company. These will typically consist of the ICAO code of the operating airline followed by a flight identification. The flight identification is very often the same as the flight number, but could be different due to call sign confusion, if two or more flights close to each other have similar flight numbers (i.e. KLM649 and KLM645 or BAW466 and BAW646). | | FlightDepartureDate | The scheduled date (based on UTC) of departure of flight. For flights with multiple legs this is the departure of the first leg. This date must not change once set as it is used to make the FlightIds unique. | | DepartureAirportIATA | Departure airport IATA code (see AirportIATA for description of term). | | ArrivalAirportIATA | Arrival airport IATA code (see AirportIATA for description of term). | | DepartureAirportICAO | Departure airport ICAO code (see AirportICAO for description of term). | | ArrivalAirportICAO | Arrival airport ICAO code (see AirportICAO for description of term). | | FlightDIIndicator | Indicator showing what kind of flight (domestic, international, Schengen) this is. See also: AirportDIIndicator. | | SOBT | Scheduled Off-Block Time. The time that an aircraft is scheduled to depart from its parking position. Always UTC time. | | AOBT | Actual Off-Block Time. Time the aircraft pushes back / vacates the parking position. (Equivalent to Airline / Handlers ATD – Actual Time of Departure & ACARS=OUT). Always UTC time. | | SIBT | Scheduled In-Block Time. The time that an aircraft is scheduled to arrive at its first parking position. Always UTC time. | | AIBT | Actual In-Block Time. The time that an aircraft arrives in-blocks. (Equivalent to Airline/Handler ATA –Actual Time of Arrival, ACARS = IN). Always UTC time. | | AircraftRegistration | An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies an aircraft. In accordance with the Convention on International Civil Aviation all aircraft must be registered with a national aviation authority and they must carry proof of this registration in the form of a legal document called a Certificate of Registration at all times when in operation.
An aircraft can be re-registered in special cases, for instance if it's sold to an operator in another country. | | FlightServiceTypeIATA | IATA SSIM Appendix C Service Types. | | FlightServiceTypeExtended | Installation/customer specific set of flight service types. Typically used when the defined set in FlightServiceType isn't specific enough. Encoded as integer to clearly separate it from FlightServiceType. | | PersonsOnboard | All persons on board the plane. Often known as souls on board.PersonsOnboard = CrewActiveOnBoard + PaxSeatedOnBoard + PaxInfantOnBoard | | CrewActiveOnBoard | Number of working crew members (cockpit, cabin and jump seat) on board the aircraft. | | CrewPassiveBoarding | Number of passive crew boarding the aircraft. Often called "DHC" (Dead Head Crew). Included in PaxAdultBoarding. | | DutyTravelBoarding | Number of duty travelers (employees of the relevant airline on business trip) boarding the aircraft. Included in PaxAdultBoarding. | | PaxInfantBoarding | The number of infants boarding the plane. | | PaxBoarding | The number of "seated passengers" boarding the aircraft, infants excluded.
PaxBoarding = PaxAdultBoarding + PaxChildBoarding | | PaxTransferBoarding | The number of transfer passengers boarding the flight. These passengers are also included in the PaxBoarding number. | | PaxTransit | PaxTransit is the number of passengers that were transit-passengers at the start of the flight leg defined by DTSData. | | PaxDisembarking | The number of passengers and passive crew disembarking the plane, infants excluded.
PaxDisembarking = PaxAdultDisembarking + PaxChildDisembarking | | PaxInfantDisembarking | The number of infants disembarking the plane. | | CargoWeightLoaded | Cargo weight loaded at the departure airport. | | CargoWeightUnloaded | Cargo weight unloaded at the arrival airport. | | MailWeightLoaded | Mail weight loaded at the departure airport. | | MailWeightUnloaded | Mail weight unloaded at the arrival airport. |
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