by Alan Black AS122 » 18 Oct 2016 10:04
What I did was go through the flights flown by each UPS aircraft over the last week and adjusted the schedules from there. In an effort not to have duplicate flights, the aircraft that flew the majority of the flights in that period is the one that was assigned in the schedules.
As an example, UPS2804 (SDF-DEN) is typically flown once/week by the M1F, with the rest of the flights being 76Y. Rather than have two entries, I made this a 76Y flight and figured folks could easily sub the M1F if they wanted to, just like UPS does..
On the SDF-PHX route, I can only find 2 flights out of the almost 15 that I can see in Flightaware history were flown by the M1F, so the same applied here.
With PDX-ANC, there is only one instance of that flight being flown at all in recent history, and that was UPS9302. As we know, the UPS9xxx flights are ferries or specials, and therefore shouldn't be part of the scheduled database since they aren't a regular scheduled flight.
Without going through all the examples one by one, this is why I did what I did and as a result, alot of those flights are missing or scheduled by other aircraft.
If you've got a better source and want to share, I'd love to see it since I have a history with UPS and want it to be as accurate as possible. Like I said, there's always substitutions and the Crew Passes if there's something a little different that's not included in the schedules.