✈️ Flight Management System

📄 Description

The Flight Management System is a C++ application designed to handle comprehensive airline operations, including airport management, flight schedules, plane configurations, customer reservations, ticketing, waiting lists, and discount offers.

It utilizes object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, inheritance, dynamic memory, and data structures (linked lists, binary search trees, and arrays) to manage data efficiently and simulate a real-world flight reservation system.

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⚙️ Features

• Add, update, and delete customers
• Manage airports, flights, and planes
• Reserve, cancel, or change flight bookings
• Handle ticket generation, pricing (by class), and discounts
• Manage passenger trees and waiting lists
• Load and save system data using file I/O
• Offer automatic seat allocation and seat availability checking
• View customer profiles and travel statistics

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🧱 Project Structure

The project consists of the following main components:

| Component | Description |

| Airport | Represents an airport with relevant details like name, country, weather, and distance to Beirut |

| Plane | Manages plane-specific data like seat configuration and mileage |

| Flight | Stores flight details, passengers (BST), and waiting list (linked list) |

| Customer | Represents customer profiles with history and mileage tracking |

| Ticket | Contains booking details, costs, seat info, and discount status |

| Offer | Encapsulates offers like miles-based or flight-count-based discounts |

| AirlineSystem | Core engine integrating all components and orchestrating user interaction |

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📂 File Management

The following files are used for persistent storage:

• airports.txt
• planes.txt
• flights.txt
• customers.txt
• offers.txt
• tickets.txt
• passengers.txt
• waitinglists.txt

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🚀 How to Run

1. Compile using a C++ compiler (e.g., g++, clang++)
2. Ensure all the required .txt data files are in the same directory
3. Run the executable
4. Follow the interactive console menu to manage the airline system

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🔐 Technologies Used

• C++ (OOP)
• File I/O streams (fstream)
• Data structures (linked lists, BSTs, arrays)
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Custom parsing of input text data

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🛠️ Future Enhancements

• GUI Interface using Qt or SFML
• Integration with a database (e.g., SQLite or MySQL)
• Online booking system with web backend (e.g., Django or Node.js)
• Real-time flight status and check-in functionality
• QR code or e-ticket generation
• Role-based access for admins and users
• Enhanced error handling and validation
• Unit tests and CI integration

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👨‍💻 Author

Ayesha Younas FAST-NU Lahore | BSCS 2023

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Collaboration Guidelines

We welcome contributions from the open-source community. If you'd like to collaborate on this project, please adhere to the following guidelines:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix.
3. Implement your changes and commit them with descriptive messages.
4. Push your branch to your fork and submit a pull request.

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Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or suggestions!