What's A Flight group?

A flight is a group of weeks that shares the same dayparts, rates, and spots. You can quickly apply the same dayparts with the same number of spots and rate to each week within a flight.

A flight group is a group of dayparts assigned to weeks with the same number spots at the same rate and same spot length across all the weeks in that flight.

• If you change the number of spots in a daypart row, the number of spots are changed across all the weeks contained in that flight, regardless of whether you are in the average week view or show flight detail view. The same happens for rate, spot length, applying weights, and manual ratings to daypart rows. The changes are applied to all the weeks contained in that flight.

• If you want a different rate or spot length for the same daypart in the same flight, add another daypart row.

• If you want a different set of dayparts applied to different weeks, create a new flight group.

• Toggling On/Off keeps the definition of the flight group the same. If you toggle off a daypart in a single week in show flight detail, it will toggle off the same daypart across all the weeks in that flight.

• You can still have multiple instances of the same daypart in a flight group, but the daypart rows are no longer  automatically combined. This means that your daypart rows are no longer automatically rearranging themselves.

• The averaged rates and averaged number of spots in average week view are not displayed unless you display Spot Placement view and assign spots to different days across weeks within the same flight.

How to avoid averaged rates, spots with decimals, and asterisks in your dayparts?

• When you set up your schedule always use a broadcast calendar and make sure schedule start date is a Monday and your end date is a Sunday.

• A schedule pushes spots out of invalid days and dayparts due to partial weeks and wrap around weeks. A partial week possibly may not have the same number of spots as a full week and this leads to an average number of spots with a decimal to appear in the average week view.

• The asterisk next to dayparts, spots with decimals, or average rates indicate that at least one week in your flight is different from the rest of the weeks in that flight.