Why doesn't Dublin Airport website list Etihad flights?

coylemj

Etihad have a scheduled flight to Abu Dhabi tomorrow from Dublin at 09:20 (EY42) but you wouldn't know it from the DAA website, they don't list Abu Dhabi as a destination in the dropdown box on the Flight Departures page and neither do they list Etihad as an airline which flies out of Dublin.

Scanning down the departure list for tomorrow morning, there's no mention of the 09:20 flight to Abu Dhabi...

http://www.dublinairport.com/gns/flight-information/live-departures.aspx

Etihad have two flights to Abu Dhabi listed in the DAA Summer timetable (PDF download), depart at 09:20 (Daily except Tuesday) and 20:55 (Mon/Tue/Fri/Sat) but they are mysteriously missing from the Dublin airport website.

A319er

Common error which gets fixed before midnight for the next day,often loads other flights are missing

0920 and 2055 tomorrow to AUH

Never ever depend on a third party vendor to give you accurate info about anything , that's why they have all those disclaimers lol

coylemj

A319er wrote: »

Never ever depend on a third party vendor to give you accurate info about anything , that's why they have all those disclaimers lol

I accept the principle but most airlines don't provide live flight data so where is an intending traveller supposed to get the information except off the airport website?

A319er

Best bet is from the specific airline re the schedule and on the actual day
Re the actual arrival or departure time . DAA site is good on the day

Jhcx

The DAA website has so many errors. needs updating. in all sectors. lot of stuff listed that are no longer in business. and companies listed under their old handling agent. Im guessing its not listed because the ey48 was the first flight and when they introduced the second one they havent updated. just my guess.

coylemj

I can accept that the actual flight may not appear until the day of the flight but I'm mystified as to why Etihad is missing from the list of airlines and Abu Dhabi from the list of destinations on the Flight Departures webpage, given that there are 10 departures weekly

Jhcx

Well all flights are listed here this way

coylemj

Yes I found it listed there but it's well hidden and there's no live flight data. As I mentioned earlier, the Etihad flights are also listed in the PDF timetable you can download.

Jamie2k9

Well your should have the date and time on your booking conformation. Etihad website provides live flight data once you put in DUB-ABU and date or flight number and date. DUB website won't tell you anything different and it won't be live as delayed departures are not listed on the website at all.

Since DUB changed over systems a few months ago lots of flights and airlines are always missing off the site. Whoever they got to change over, they should be asking for it to be fixed or use the older system that actually worked properly.

coylemj

The flight is now listed on the DUB website.

Jhcx

So only shows up after midnight

coylemj

Jhcx wrote: »

So only shows up after midnight

Doesn't explain why yesterday there was dozens of flights listed for today but that one was missing even though it's a scheduled flight listed in a timetable that was isssued last March.

LXFlyer

It's quite obviously some form of IT glitch.

dukedalton

Speaking of glitches, I remember Aertel on Christmas Eve used to list a SANTA1 flight as arriving from North Pole at 0000. When I looked at the DAA website on Christmas Eve last year, it had the flight code as SAA and the airline listed as South African Airways!

homer911

Hijacking this thread a little, but I'm trying to find details on a specific flight
QS3031 from Lanzarote to Dublin on 14/9/2013 to support an insurance claim - the flight was over 4 hours late arriving. Cant find details of the flight anywhere. It was a charter operated by Travel Service Airlines (Smart Wings) on behalf of Sunway

Are there any gurus on here who could advise?

Thanks

Jamie2k9

homer911 wrote: »

Hijacking this thread a little, but I'm trying to find details on a specific flight
QS3031 from Lanzarote to Dublin on 14/9/2013 to support an insurance claim - the flight was over 4 hours late arriving. Cant find details of the flight anywhere. It was a charter operated by Travel Service Airlines (Smart Wings) on behalf of Sunway

Are there any gurus on here who could advise?

Thanks

The tour operator should be able to retrieve data flight the flight, by contracting the airline. There wouldn't be records of it to the public.

pclancy

Yeah charter flight info would be with the operator.

andy_g

homer911.

Please dont hijack the thread on someone, it takes the same time to start a new one as it does to hijack also please try the travel forum.