[Feature] Custom Airlines & Aircraft

[randrewlove]

I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

In the Data section of the Settings, there is a text label that says "Manage custom airports, airlines and airplanes.". However, it only currently supports custom airports. While adding my backlog of flights, it does not have certain old airlines (examples: NWA, AWE, USA) & aircraft (examples: DC95, MD11, MD82, MD88, MD90). And the airline/aircraft values for these entries are just left blank when importing.

It would be nice if the custom airline & aircraft functionality that the text infers could be added.

I did search through past issues and see this has been asked before. The previous response was that you wanted to avoid key collisions between custom airline/aircraft codes and any possible future ICAO airline/aircraft codes. I can understand that, but why not just handle it similar to how you've already handled the custom airport codes, where it won't let you create a custom airport that matches an existing ICAO airport code?

Or alternatively, you could prevent key collisions by adding some text onto the end of the custom airline/aircraft codes. For example: NWA-CUST & DC95-CUST. All 3 character airline & 4 character aircraft codes would be reserved for ICAO values and anything longer would be custom, thereby preventing future collisions.

It just seems a shame to allow custom airports but not custom airlines or aircraft.

[johanohly]

Custom airlines and aircraft were added in v3!