Personal issues got in the way like the sudden death of my son from an heart attack but we are over the shock now.
The code has been dumped as some of it was āputting my valuesā onto fields rather than using data from the internet.
I have already modelled one thing which I am testing is the seat allocations of aircraft i.e. First , Business and Economy capacities based on seat=plan websites like SeatGuru.
By using this data along with flight information it will be possible to set up subfleets more aligned with the airlines that flew that route.
This gives more credence to people say basing a budget airline on like EasyJet or Ryanair as their seating capacities for example on a Boeing 737 could be very different to a more traditional airline where instead of all economy you have business class and economy to use
for example on my testing stub I extracted the aircraft seat configurations of two airlines Air Mauritius and Air France that both use Airbus A350 aircraft
Air Mauritus revealed a seat configuration of
mk-359
First Class Seats: 0
Business Class Seats: 28
Economy Class Seats: 298
Air France revealed two seat combinations that could be used
af-359-1
First Class Seats: 0
Business Class Seats: 34
Economy Class Seats: 290
af-359-2
First Class Seats: 0
Business Class Seats: 48
Economy Class Seats: 244
So you can see three different seating layouts for the same aircraft which in PHPVMSGEN where one of the new options will give an āAirline Cloneā choice then if you chose Air Mauritius you would get one Subfleet record for the A359 but if you chose Air France you would get two subfleet records , Ovbiously they would have the maximum capacity settings approriately.
This level of detail I hope will make a more ātrue to realā life creation of Virtual Airline data for Phpvms V7
As a side note on this I am not sticking to just one data website for the seating plans I am checking three different sites as some airlines might be missing from one but appear on either of the other two.
As a bonus to the PHPVMS community I will create a nice PDF report showing all the airlines that I have data for along with the Aircraft type and also the important First , Business and Economy numbers. It will be in Airline and Aircraft order and then Aircraft and Airline order to give two lists for you all to have as a reference.
The table will also have a unique Airline in which like I said will have a sort of average capacity based the number of aircraft types that have the same seating layouts , then if no clear choice then the middle value of all the choices will be used to give this value