Can't import Delta flight info to iCal

How do you locate the "END:VEVENT"

Thanks,

Boris

I used a text editor (MacVim, but you could use TextEdit) and added an "END:VEVENT" line just before the "BEGIN:VEVENT" line of the second flight.

It's ugly to have to hand-edit .ICS files, but it was the only way I could get it to work.

Thanks, George. I had the same problem with the missing "END:VEVENT". When I double clicked the filename to add it to Calendar an error message window popped up but it disappeared in less than a second, and I could never read what it said ("SAD"). However, your solution solved my problem.

M.Y.1 said he/she solved the problem by following the link from the confirmation email and then clicked to add the iCal event. What link in the confirmation email? The only links I found from the confirmation email were ones that led to my Flight Information page for my confirmation number, and that's the page that has the button that creates the incorrect iCal .ics file with the missing "END:VEVENT".

I also discovered a bug in an iCal event created by my hotel reservation on that same trip. When I double clicked the .ics file to add it to my calendar, it failed and the error message was "missing end date" (and, that popup didn't instantly disappear). But, there was both a "DTSTART:" and "DTEND:" line in the .ics file. However, when I compared the .ics file for Delta and the .ics file for the hotel I noticed the hotel's .ics file inserted a blank between "DTSTART:" and the date value, same for "DTEND:", but the Delta .ics file had no blank. I deleted the blank in the "DTSTART:" and "DTEND:" lines, then double clicked again on the file name, and it loaded correctly. To me (as a retired university professor of Computer Science) that seems like sloppy software design by Apple's iCal developers rather than a bug in the hotel's event creation software. I.e., Apple iCal developers should have written their software to ignore blank space between the tag and its value, IMO.

About not finding the link in the confirmation email: I found a weird thing - the link I clicked on the webpage when I bought my ticket produced a different file than when I clicked the "Manage my trip" link in the confirmation email then the calendar link on the webpage again. So, weird, but true. The first file had the END:VEVENT line before the 2nd flight event, but the 2nd file did not. However, the first file had some other problem. I am not a coder, and don't know if this messes anything up, but the first file had this all together on one line: METHOD:PUBLISHBEGIN:VEVENT. I tried separating BEGIN:VEVENT to a new line and rerunning, but this first file still did not work. After I added the END:VEVENT line to the 2nd file, it worked. Anyway, thanks for the details and the fix, can't believe Delta is still issuing incorrect files for 2 years+.

This totally worked and was easy by opening the ".ics" file in TextEdit and just pasting in the "END:VEVENT" on the line before the "BEGIN:VEVENT". Odd that Delta can't get the coding correct, but easy enough fix. Thanks!!

Marj,

If the event is in downloads, just double-click on the event.

Same issue here. Anyone figure out the way to get the Delta reservations calendar download to go into Calendar?

I SOLVED IT!!!! I have had this problem before too. But tonight I clicked on the link from my confirmation EMAIL and then clicked to add to calendar --> ical etc. This worked and I got a .ics file to add to iCal.

Bless you. It worked.

That didn't work for me, but I discovered that there was no "END:VEVENT" for the first flight in the itinerary. Adding tat did the trick.