Itineraries

NoteTab Light, a free word processor, can streamline Worldspan and Sabre itinerary displays for email.

The result will make them easier to read.

This is a sample of flight schedules in Worldspan ( *IA display )

Copy the above flight display from Wspan and paste into the NoteTab Light word processor:

NoteTab includes "Clip Programming" which allows creation of custom clips (scripts).

The clip on this page, when added to NoteTab, will edit out extraneous characters.

A double click on this custom clip will change the schedules above to the following:

The edited schedules are then pasted into the following email example,

with some flight segment prices and descriptions added:

"Here are some flight options to choose from:

Boston to Ohare

AA1875 03MAY MO BOSORD 600A 745A American $99

UA 531 03MAY MO BOSORD 655A 837A United $99

AA1041 03MAY MO BOSORD 730A 915A American $99

Chicago to Kansas City

AA4141 03MAY MO ORDMCI 545P 710P American

UA 275 03MAY MO ORDMCI 533P 701P United

UA5783 03MAY MO ORDMCI 700P 837P United

All flights are $118, with 2 week advance purchase; 7-day advance is about $60 more.

KC to Houston

WN 47 05MAY WE MCIHOU 405P 705P Southwest $115

(into Hobby, one stop Dallas, no change)

or Continental nonstop to Intercontinental

CO2271 05MAY WE MCIIAH 511P 708P

or

CO3029 05MAY WE MCIIAH 613P 810P

next morning

CO2546 06MAY TH MCIIAH 610A 808A

CO1571 06MAY TH MCIIAH 730A 933A

CO flights are $322 one way (refundable) "

NoteTab automatically reformats Worldspan's new courier font to single spaced and not bold.

Sabre's itinerary display is slightly different.

The notetab clip below changes M to MO, T to TU, W to WE, Q to TH, F to FR, J to SA and S to SU,

and cleans up the rest of the extra characters for email.

Here is the custom clip to edit either Worldspan or Sabre schedules.

The clip deletes segment status codes SS, MK, GK, HK, PN, NN

and makes day-of-the-week substitutions for Sabre, and more.

H="clean itin"

^!Jump 1

:Loop

^!Select +3

^!InsertText

^!MoveCursor +6

^!select +1

^!Inserttext

^!If ^$GetTextLineCount$ = ^$GetRow$ remove

:jump

^!Jump +1

^!Goto Loop

:remove

^!Replace " M " >> " MO " WAS

^!Replace " T " >> " TU " WAS

^!Replace " W " >> " WE " WAS

^!Replace " Q " >> " TH " WAS

^!Replace " F " >> " FR " WAS

^!Replace " J " >> " SA " WAS

^!Replace " S " >> " SU " WAS

^!Replace /.* >> "" AWRST

^!Replace "#1" >> "" WAST

^!Replace "#2" >> "" WAST

^!Replace SS\d|MK\d|GK\d|HK\d|NN\d|PN\d >> "" AWRSI

Here is how to setup NoteTab and add the above clip:

1. Download and install the free version of NoteTab Light from here: http://notetab.com/downloads.php

2. Start the program, go to "Tools", then "Clipbook" and select "Open Clipbook" until you see the left hand column in the main NoteTab window. The column may already be visible. Select "Open Clipbook" again to toggle the column off/on. You will be using the clip shown in this column.

3. Then also under "Tools" and "Clipbook" select "New Library". A new tab "Clip01.clb" is added. Rename this by going to the "File" menu and select "Save" and change the File name to something like "Itinerary.clb" and click Save. Bring this clip 'forward' by clicking on the drop-down arrow at the top of the left-hand column to select "Itinerary" or click on the "Itinerary" tab at the bottom of the window. Now you can add the above clip to this new library.

4. Select and copy all 24 lines of the above clip, including the first line ( H="clean itin" ) to the end of the last line.

5. Go back to NoteTab Light and to the Tools menu, then Clipbook and then select to "Add from clipboard..." . This adds the clip to NoteTab. You should now see "clean itin" in the left column.

The clip is now ready to use.

Book some flights in Sabre or Worldspan, copy and paste into NoteTab, or copy/paste the itinerary below into a blank NoteTab document.

The clip will work on everything showing in a document, so make sure only the unedited schedules are present in the document.

1 LH 423D 18JUL SU BOSFRA SS1 450P 555A#1/O P E

2*LH2505D 24JUL SA VLCMAD SS1 715A 815A/O P E

3*LH2581D 24JUL SA MADFRA MK1 905A 1145A/X P E

4 LH 422D 24JUL SA FRABOS NN1 100P 305P/O P E

Copy the above four segments. Go to NoteTab Light and select "New" from the "File" menu, then paste the itinerary into NoteTab.

Next, double-click on the "clean itin" clip in the left hand clip library column.

The unedited schedules pasted into NoteTab have a single space before the "1" in the first line. This is true in the Wspan and Sabre's displays.

This single space must be present for the clip to work correctly.

Occasionally the clip gets stuck in a loop and the cursor will blink fast.

If this happens, press Ctrl and Alt keys at the same time to exit the loop.

Install NoteTab Light and custom clip video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hp6B5TjHB4

NoteTab has a shortcut on my task bar. It has tabs for quick access to recent files.

When you copy and paste text into Notetab it is converted to plain text, so if you want to retain format other than basis spacing then use another word processor like Word.

With Word you can 'select all' and then Ctrl + Shift + F9 to remove all hyperlinks in the document.