Routes, itineraries, sailings and legs

A Nile vessel sails a fixed loop, and guests join and leave it at different ports. Riverdesk describes that with four ideas.

The weekly route (template)

The stops the vessel makes in order, with the day of each. For example, a 7-day loop:

Day	Stop
0	Luxor → Esna
1	Edfu
2	Kom Ombo
4	Aswan
5	Kom Ombo, Edfu
6	Esna
7	Luxor (and the loop starts again)

Itineraries (sailing patterns)

What you sell on that route: where guests board and where they leave. For example:

• LXR-4: 4 nights from Luxor to Aswan;
• ASW-3: 3 nights from Aswan to Luxor;
• LXR-7 and ASW-7: the full loop from either end.

Legs (departures)

A leg is the vessel sailing from one boarding port to the next, for example Luxor → Aswan on Monday 2 November. On the 7-day loop above there are two legs a week: Luxor → Aswan and Aswan → Luxor.

Legs are what cabins are counted on. Inventory, manifests and cabin numbers are all per leg.

Sailings

A sailing is one itinerary on one date: LXR-7 on 2 November. It uses one or more legs. LXR-7 on 2 November uses both legs of that week, while LXR-4 on the same day uses only the first.

This is why one cabin can be sold to a 4-night guest from Luxor and then to a 3-night guest from Aswan the same week, but never to two guests on the same leg.

Exceptions

Real life changes the plan: low water at Esna, a port closure, dry dock. Schedule changes are made on legs (cancel, move dates, change port) and Riverdesk recomputes every sailing that uses them. See Schedule.