Flight schedule (airline)

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The flight plan of an airline is the " course book " - the entirety of the flight routes offered by it , as the result of an extensive analysis of the network planning or route management of the company.

This was previously published in the form of a manual, which was displayed in sales and travel agencies , as well as at sales points at airports. Since the advent of the Internet, airlines have also published their flight schedules on their website - mostly using a search and selection function. At the same time, this is usually combined with the option of booking online. Deviations (e.g. seasonal program cuts) and short-term changes can also be displayed online better and more flexibly than is possible with the printed plans.

Meanwhile, airlines shy away from the associated printing costs, so the printed flight plans gradually disappeared since the second half of the 2000s and are now a rarity. Lufthansa issued its last printed flight plan in 2009; Swiss stopped this in 2008.

This publication of the services offered by an airline for its customers must not be confused with the flight plan (if necessary, permanent flight plan for the entire season) with which the airline registers the same flights with air traffic control or which a pilot gives up to air traffic control before a flight that is subject to a flight schedule got to.