Flight schedule
The flight schedule shows every planned flight as a bar on a timeline, one row per stand. Drag flights to another stand or time, and the schedule check tells you what will go wrong before it does.
Reading the timeline
Each stand has its own row, and each flight appears as a bar from arrival to departure. Flights that have not been given a stand yet sit in a separate row at the top. The colour of a bar shows its state – planned, on its way, on the ground, done – and unplanned flights, such as spontaneous visitors who called in by radio, are shown in purple.
Overnight stays continue into the next day, so you can see which stands are blocked in the morning.
Planning
Accepted airline contracts and requests add entries to the schedule. You can:
- drag a bar to another row to move the flight to another stand,
- drag it sideways to change the time,
- switch between days to plan ahead.
The schedule check
Below the timeline, the check lists every problem it finds:
- Overlaps. Two flights on the same stand at the same time. A stand counts as occupied for the ground time plus a short buffer before and after. Overlapping bars are split into lanes, the clash is shaded red and the stand is labelled DOUBLE or TRIPLE.
- Night flights on unlit runways. Movements between 21:00 and 05:00 without runway lighting.
- No route. An aircraft type that cannot reach its stand – for example a heavy turboprop that would have to cross grass.
- Tower capacity. Hours in which more movements are planned than your tower can handle.
Fix the warnings and the day runs smoothly; ignore them and you will see aircraft circling, diverting or waiting at the stand.
Why punctuality matters
Airlines and mail contracts care about being on time. Delays cost airline satisfaction, late mail flights reduce your revenue, and contract renewals depend on a good record.