The text is a little jagged because I don’t bother adding spaces to single-digit hours. What I want is something that looks more like this: Every cell of the table is on its own line and different flights are represented by different numbers of lines. You can see all the information, but it’s a mess. If I select the text of the schedule, copy it, and paste it into my text editor (BBEdit), it looks like this: I usually fly Southwest, and when I search for flights, Southwest’s website returns information in this form: The biggest problem in creating the list of alternative return flights is the convoluted formatting used on airline websites.
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I don’t print my alternate return flight schedules on index cards anymore, but I do save them as a text file on my phone. You may think that connected smartphones and airline apps have made this sort of thing obsolete, but in my experience it’s still faster to have the flight numbers and times at your fingertips than it is to search for them in an app. I used to print this information out on an index card clipped to my Hipster PDA. The fastest way to choose a new return flight is to have the alternatives already saved on my phone and available for quick consultation.
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I schedule my return flight based on a best guess as to how long the work will last, but it’s common for me to be done a couple of hours early or to run a couple of hours long.
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