i try this with a few airlines like UA, British Airways, Cathay Pacific...
it seems most airlines work except for Cathay Pacific, i have tried using CX 873, CX #873 and Cathay Pacific 873, but none works
any ideas why this particular airlines does not work?
In that case this doesn't work…
Just to add, Typing "Southwest #542" will not work. Typing the IATA code will not work. However, typing "Southwest Airlines #542" does work.
i did try your suggestion 'Cathay Pacific Airways #873', but it does not work either even though your screen shot seem to work.
this is very odd indeed. i use both entire airlines name and airlines code (see below) and they all work.
British Airways #403
UA #322
AA #2433
so i do not why it just does not work for cathay pacific (i did try both CX 873 and Cathay Pacific Airways #873), but no luck.
see screen shot, every airlines work except cathay pacific
j Robson wrote:
i did try your suggestion 'Cathay Pacific Airways #873', but it does not work either even though your screen shot seem to work.
Yews, it does seem to…
FWIW, what I do is press return at the end of the line then hover the cursor over the text and I get the drop down menu. If I close Notes then reopen, I have to click at the end of the line, hit return, then hover over the line.
try…
Cathay Pacific Airways #873
As you can see I did not use CX, I used "Cathay Pacific Airways #873". Whatever.
this is the new feature with el capitan unless you have not tried or even aware of it
launch your notes app. enter any valid flight, i.e. UA 1536. then move your cursor over and it will open the flight track for that flight.
If you look at FlightAware, they use CPA for flight tracking, but the IATA code is indeed CX as you tried.
My guess is that you would have to determine what Apple is using to track the flights and possibly see if they use a different code like FlightAware uses.
While it is possible to enter something different, the idea behind data detectors is that you can lookup the information as printed in an email or message without going to another source. You might try providing Feedback to Apple on that as you would hope it would correctly identify all flights.
I'm not sure why you keep going on about this. That's all great that you can open a Note and type in that info and get results. Now if we can only get the airlines to spell out the entire name so that it works when you get it in an email instead of using the industry standard abbreviations.
Or, Apple can fix the data detectors so they can work as they should.
I'm going on about this because you refuse to admit you were wrong. Of course I didn't realize your opinion of how a feature should work is the final word. I assume Apple chose the method they did because it's easier for most people to remember the name of the airline rather than the IATA codes. But since you feel Apple is doing the wrong thing, perhaps you should send them feedback.
i deleted the original note with the cathay pacific info. then re-created a brand new note with the same info. now it seems to work. i can't say i know why but happy it's working now. thanks for your help.
Sorry... what are you talking about? There is no Apple product or service that tracks flights.
It appears the data detectors for airline flights is only looking for two-character airline identifiers. Cathay Pacific is CPA which it doesn't recognize.
Uh no, it's looking for the full name. See my post.
I was not talking about your post in any way, shape, or form.
I was describing the way it looks to identify flights using airline flight identifier codes.
flight track does not work for certain airlines
