How Space-A+ Works

Step-by-Step: Every Feature

Seven features, each with what it does, how to use it, and a link straight to it. Skim the headings or read straight through.

1. 1

   Confirm Your Eligibility

   Space-A is governed by DoDI 4515.13 and the priority categories I–VI. Before you build a trip, run the eligibility wizard — it asks a short series of questions and tells you which category you qualify under, whether your dependents can travel with or without you, and any restrictions tied to your status.

   1. 1Open the Eligibility Wizard from the sidebar.
   2. 2Pick the option that best describes your primary status (active duty, retired, dependent, DoW civilian, EML, etc.).
   3. 3Answer the branching follow-ups. The wizard maps you to your DoDI 4515.13 Table 3 category and authorized segments.
   4. 4Save the result to your profile so the flight board can filter to routes you're actually eligible for.
   
   Open Eligibility Wizard →
2. 2

   Plan a Trip

   The trip planner is the heart of Space-A+. You give it your origin, destination, and travel window — it walks you through three top-level steps (Plan Your Trip, Sign-Up and Monitor, Make Your Flights) with substeps for each, stitches together possible direct and multi-leg routes across all 40+ terminals, and gives you a single living plan you can come back to until you fly. Historical route insights (flight cadence, fill rates, day-of-week distribution, and a year-ago comparison for your travel window) are rendered inline at the dates substep — no separate detour to look them up.

   1. 1Click Plan a Trip in the top-left of the sidebar.
   2. 2Pick round-trip or one-way, total passengers, and your outbound from/to. You can pin a single terminal or pick a whole region / country and let the planner rank candidate terminals.
   3. 3Move through the stepper: Set the Route → Sign-Up and Monitor → Make Your Flights. Each substep links out to the right place (sign-up email, flight board, inline insights).
   4. 4The trip stays saved under My Trips so you can return to it any time and pick up where you left off.
   
   Plan a Trip →
3. 3

   Save the Routes You Watch

   If you regularly fly the same pair (say Norfolk → Rota, or Travis → Hickam), save it. Each account gets three saved-route slots — each one keeps the departure, destination, and travel window so you can return to its historical analysis or the filtered flight board without re-entering the form every time.

   1. 1Open My Routes. You'll see three numbered route slots.
   2. 2Click "Add a route" on any empty slot. Pick departure, destination, and an optional travel window.
   3. 3Saved routes show the same inline historical analysis you see in the trip planner, become one-tap launchers into the matching slice of the flight board, and (with your phone set in the profile) are what alerts fire from.
   
   My Routes →
4. 4

   Wire Up Alerts and Your Profile

   Alerts are where Space-A+ saves you time — get pinged the moment a relevant flight posts so you don't have to refresh every terminal page yourself. Profile is your notifications surface — it's where you enter the phone number we'll send SMS check-in reminders to (T-48h, T-24h, T-5h, T-3h, and roll-call), set your display name, and run the Space-A eligibility wizard. Once your phone is verified, alerts fire from your saved routes and from any flight you mark as attempting.

   1. 1Open your Profile.
   2. 2Add the phone number we should text. We send a one-time 6-digit code to verify — no further messages until you confirm.
   3. 3Run the eligibility wizard from this page if you haven't already. The result wires the flight board's eligibility filter to your category.
   4. 4Per-route alerts live on your saved routes and per-flight check-in reminders fire automatically once you mark a flight as attempting.
   
   Open Profile & Alerts →
5. 5

   Browse Every Flight in One Place

   The flight board is the single live view of every Space-A flight on Space-A+ — upcoming 72-hour departures, recent arrivals, the 30-day Patriot Express schedule, and historical roll-call results, all combined in one filterable, sortable table. The world map up top is interactive: click a terminal to filter, or pick a region (US East Coast, Pacific, Caribbean, …) from the chips below.

   1. 1Open Browse Flights — the default view shows the next 72 hours from all terminals on the world map.
   2. 2Click a terminal pin on the map, or use the region chips, or type a terminal name into the filter to narrow.
   3. 3Use the column headers to sort by date, departure, destination, or seats. The table updates within ten minutes of any terminal posting a new PDF.
   4. 4Free accounts unlock the 30-day Patriot Express schedule and the latest roll-call results for every terminal.
   
   Browse Flights →
6. 6

   Browse Terminals & Read the Terminal Guides

   Each of the 100+ AMC-listed passenger terminals has its own directory entry — phone, DSN, sign-up email, AMC website link, and direct links to the live 72-hour board, 30-day schedule, and roll-call history filtered to that terminal. The big ones (Travis, Ramstein, Norfolk, Yokota, etc.) have a full Terminal Guide built from community trip reports plus verified phone calls — lodging, transport off-base, sign-up procedure, USO hours, building quirks.

   1. 1Open Browse Terminals for the directory + world map.
   2. 2Use the search box to filter by name, country, or region. Or click a terminal pin on the map.
   3. 3Pick a terminal to land on its dedicated page: live flights, the 30-day schedule, the full Terminal Guide, and roll-call history.
   
   Browse Terminals →
7. 7

   Read the Blog

   The blog is where we publish trip reports, route guides, seasonal travel windows (PCS season, DoDEA breaks, holidays), and data-driven posts that mine our own roll-call history. Think of it as a complement to the trip reports you'll find in community groups — same kind of practical, ground-truth content, with the added angle of cross-terminal patterns drawn from the historical data we already collect.

   1. 1Open the Blog. The featured post sits at the top; the rest grid out below.
   2. 2Use the category chips (Beginner Basics, By Destination, Tips & Data) to filter by what you're researching.
   3. 3Click a post for the full body. Each post links into the live flight board, terminal guides, and saved-route quick-add wherever it's relevant.
   
   Open the Blog →