Sometimes it can be useful to transfer an aircraft’s flight plan to another aircraft as a whole, for example when you want to replace an aircraft with a newer one or if you need to scale capacity up or down by switching to a larger or smaller aircraft.
Target Aircraft
You can pick any aircraft as target aircraft, even if it is a completely different type. Just be aware that this will most likely cause errors in the resulting flight plan that need to be addressed after the transfer.
Arrival Times
By default, arrival times of the origin flight plan will be maintained. This way, slots remain the same even if the optimum cruise speed of the target aircraft is different. If the speed required to match the existing arrival times fall outside of the target type's capabilities, the flights will be saved with a performance error.
By checking the adjust arrival times to match optimum cruise speed of target aircraft option, the optimum cruise speed of the target aircraft will be used to calculate new arrival times.
Safe transfer
Any flight assignment with errors does not block slots and while the error persists, the slots required for the respective assignment can be used by other companies! If you are not sure whether the flight plan will work with the target aircraft after a transfer and you are afraid of loosing slots due to a temporarily invalid flight plan, check the only transfer without errors option. This way a transfer will only occur when the resulting flight plan is free of errors.