Flight Alert oddity

FlightAware AeroAPI
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I’ve just started using your API. Hopefully this is where I should ask questions about potential bugs.

I’m using the the push notification alerts. While inspecting some of them, I noticed that the “actualarrivaltime” and the “actualdeparturetime” are equal in value. Here’s a subset of the alert I got…



{
  "eventcode": "arrival",
  "alert_id": 4821301,
  "flight": {
    "ident": "SWA3695",
    "origin": "KLAS",
    "destination": "KBNA",
    "faFlightID": "SWA3695-1373607306-airline-0056",
    "filed_time": 1373855235,
    "filed_departuretime": 1373854800,
    "estimatedarrivaltime": 1373867400,
    "actualarrivaltime": 1373855220,
    "actualdeparturetime": 1373855220,
    "estimated_blockin_time": 1373868000,
    "filed_blockin_time": 1373867700,
    "actual_blockin_time": 1373855220,
    "estimated_blockout_time": 1373854740,
    "filed_blockout_time": 1373854800,
    "actual_blockout_time": 1373855220,
    "filed_arrivaltime": 1373867340
  }
}

I check a few other “arrival” alerts, and they looked correct (i.e., not the same value for departure and arrival).

Is this supposed to happen under certain circumstances?

Thanks,
Darren

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When actualarrivaltime is the same as actualdeparturetime, that is an indication of “Flight Result Unknown” flightaware.com/about/faq#flightresultunknown

However, looking at that specific flight I do not currently see that condition so it was probably automatically corrected a few minutes later when we received more accurate data. flightaware.com/live/flight/id/S … rline-0056