What's new in SSIM Toolkit.

Flying times were wrong on schedules published in UTC

A schedule states whether its times are local to each airport or in UTC. We were treating every file as local, so on a UTC schedule the flying time came out wrong by the difference between the two airports' clocks — a three-and-a-half-hour sector could read as thirty minutes. Anything built on flying time was affected: rotations, aircraft utilisation and seat-hours. Schedules published in local time were always correct.

Data elements are shown by what they actually contain

An operating-airline disclosure was being drawn as a list of booking classes, so an airline's name appeared under a heading about fares. The booking classes themselves were never shown as the fare list they are, and arrived as one unbroken run of letters.

The two halves of a duplicate-leg reference are told apart

One names the flights that duplicate this one; the other names the flight that actually operates. Both were headed the same way, so it was possible to read one and conclude the opposite of the truth about which flight flies.

When nothing matches, the app says what is missing

Searching for a market the file does not contain now says so and names it, and distinguishes that from a result your other filters ruled out. Where it helps, it points at what the file does have instead.

A back link on flight, airline and airport pages

It names the page you came from and takes you back to it as you left it, with your filters still applied.

Every data element says what it means

Each one keeps its name from the standard, with a plain-language line underneath — so a card explains itself without a manual.

This page

What's New, in the menu next to About. It opens by itself the first time you run a new version, and you can read it any time.

The itinerary variation is on the flight page

It is what tells apart several records of the same flight number. It is on flight detail and in exports; it is deliberately not in the flights list, which stays readable.

Opening an existing data set takes longer, once

As with the last version, the first time you open a data set on this build it rebuilds the index it answers questions from. Automatic, once per data set, and slow on a large file — it has not stalled.

Analysis counts each flight once

When several airlines sell seats on the same flight, that flight is filed once per airline. Every count was adding them all up, so a market could show 46 airlines competing where there are 9, and an airport could show three times its real movements. The Flights list still shows every record, as it should.

Flight dates show the year from the schedule

Flight detail printed the same year for every flight whatever the file said. It now reads the year off the record, and says so plainly when a schedule has no end date.

The Route Map draws the file you opened

The Route Map, the Airports network-reach card and the Overview map teaser all drew a bundled sample network, whichever file was open.

Set the capacity Deconfliction works against

A movements-per-30-minutes box on the Deconfliction page, remembered per airport. Conflict counts now follow a figure you chose.

Check for Updates… in the menu bar

Settings no longer points at a customer portal

The licence section described buying seats somewhere that does not exist, and never explained the free period or what read-only means.

Opening an existing data set takes longer, once

The first time you open a data set on this version it rebuilds the index it answers questions from. It happens automatically and only once per data set, but on a large file it is slow — it has not stalled.

An upgraded install could start locked

If you had run an earlier preview on the same machine, a freshly installed build could open already expired and refuse to let you in, even though the new build was well inside its preview period.

The installers are signed

The macOS build is notarised, and the Windows installer carries a verified publisher. Earlier previews were unsigned, which is why they warned on first launch.