Southwest Airlines will soon be assigning seats, so the need to track inop seats at the actual seat number will be critical. Currently, we track seats for each row, not at the individual seat number. When we have a fault or an MEL, the seat in question is notated in the fault description, but we have no means of being able to select the actual seat. How do other operators, that assign seats, track inop seats in Maintenix? Are your seats currently tracked to the individual seats?
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Tracking MEL/Inop Seats
+10Best answer by OlivierAF
Hello
AF is fully supporting this request and not for seats, it may also concern other traked , SER components.
An Idea was raised some time ago:
You may also push it, to make IFS moving on this improvement?
For the moment an alert on the defer is being sent the ground ops and send the FAULT Name field and Description hoping that a Tech provided the seat number there, this is a non formatted Text field and difficult to read as data.
Best Regards
Hello
AF is fully supporting this request and not for seats, it may also concern other traked , SER components.
An Idea was raised some time ago:
You may also push it, to make IFS moving on this improvement?
For the moment an alert on the defer is being sent the ground ops and send the FAULT Name field and Description hoping that a Tech provided the seat number there, this is a non formatted Text field and difficult to read as data.
Best Regards
+11HI Shon,
Measurements can be used to record this information against faults. The standard Measurement enforces the entry to be numerical, with a specified precision. Row numbers fit this spec, but seat letters would not be covered. Measurements can be free form text, but could allow invalid values. There is also the option of the Characteristic measurement. On the measurement details’ Data Value tab the business would define all allowable values. The resulting field would be a drop-down list. A seat’s row number and letter assignment could be defined as two different measurements, or combined into one Characteristic value.
For each measurement, you can define the assembly for which it is applicable.
Tracking the affected seat via measurement would allow the data to be stored in the system in a consistent manner that can be extracted for use in downstream processes such as your booking system.
When raising faults there is an option to supply a Failure Type. This failure type can be associated with one or many measurements that would simplify the process of adding measurements. Measurements are created and edited in the UI. Failure type configuration is done via database scripting in the tables ref_fail_type (Failure Type), and ref_fail_parm_data (linking Failure Type to a Measurement in mim_data_Type).
+10Thanks Robert. In addition to being able to capture seat data, we would like that info to be populated via an API as part of our elogbook initiative, could measurements be updated via an API?
+11Hi Shon,
The Fault object in the eLogbook API does not have the facility to create or update a fault to add a task measurement.
There is an optional to add a flight measurement to an aircraft. There is the option to query for measurements using a task or fault barcode. There is an option to create a history note against faults.
Hello Robert ,
When several seats are INOP, can you add SEAT measurement several time and select SEAT A, SEAT B anc SEAT C in the same Fault?
Thanks
+11Hi Olivier,
It is only possible to track one measurement of a given type on a fault. Duplicating the fault is an option. The alternate option would be to have a method to derive more options using grouping Values, like SEATS L, SEATS R, SEATS C to denote that a partial row, is affected. The short description is visible here and may aid in guiding the correct selection.
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