Easier Way to Change Airline Names?

cwh1977

Trying to change airlines back before all the mergers. Like at Houston, changing all the planes from United back to Continental; Detroit back to Northwest; Charlotte back to USAir; etc. Not only do I have to change it for each individually flight, it looks like I have to change each individual flight on every day of the week. If Continental/United has 500 flights a day at Houston, that's a lot of clicks. if you count changing the call sign, carrier, and aircraft, then multiply it by flights, you come out at over 10,000 clicks at one airport alone. Is there any easier way of doing this?

Rich

Hi,
To perform bulk changes like that, it will still require making numerous changes to numerous files, but there are quicker ways to do it than doing it all manually via the app.
The first thing you can do is open the airport ini file directly. I.e. go to your community folder \justflight-fstraffic-module\Data\Schedules and open KIAH.ini in notepad.
Take this line for example - 8=DT:0520,ICAO:KORD,CA:UAL,AC:320,FLTNO2653,CS:UNITED,DAYS:1234567*
To bulk replace United with Continental, you need to go to Edit>Replace in Notepad and replace CA:UAL with CA:COA and CS:UNITED with CS:CONTINENTAL and apply it to the entire document.
Now, because we don't have a Continental livery for obvious reasons, for the sim to still load the United livery you will then need to modify the aircraft ini files for each aircraft used for United flights. Take the AC: entries in these two lines for example:
25=DT:0600,ICAO:KEWR,CA:UAL,AC:739,FLTNO1268,CS:UNITED,DAYS:1234567*
26=DT:0600,ICAO:KLAX,CA:UAL,AC:753,FLTNO1230,CS:UNITED,DAYS:1234567*
That means in this case the 739.ini and 753.ini files need to be modified (and for whatever other aircraft are used by United in that airport ini).
Using 739.ini as an example (aircraft ini files are found in \justflight-fstraffic-module\Data\Aircraft\aircraftIniFiles), you'll need to copy the [UAL] section and paste it as a new section. Then the United references need replacing with Continental. I.e. like this:
[COA]
Name=Continental Airlines
IATA=CO
ICAO=COA
title=JustFlight_AI_737-900_UnitedAirlinesUAL
title2=
title3=
title4=
title5=
Save that file and then once all the aircraft ini files that are references by United entries have been replaced, they should then appear as Continental flights in the app.

I hope that helps

cwh1977

Dude, I know it's been a few months, but I did what you suggested. Although a lot of work, it worked great. I downloaded all my planes from IVAO MTL and inserted them in FS Traffic. So cool to see a line of America West planes at PHX.