Official Airline Guide
OAG Worldwide Limited, also known as Official Airline Guide known ( engl Official Airline Guide ), is a UK based service for travel news, data and ranking. The company consists of more than 450 employees and 9 offices in Europe, Asia and America. The Official Airline Guide provides database management in the field of aviation, travel and hospitality industry. Currently, an electronic database daily more than 1000 Airlines and 3500 flights over the Internet is provided. The OAG also awards the prize for the best deals of the year.
History
The OAG began in 1853, first as ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide ( engl alphabetical railway guide - now OAG Rail Guide). This was followed by the first publication of the "official airline guide " in 1929 in the United States, resulting in a list of 35 airlines and 300 flights. 1970, the OAG Pocket Flight Guide ( engl airline pocket guide ) was published, which was devoted mainly business travelers.
The electronic edition was launched in 1983 to market. This was the first online travel planning tool OAG, which included both flight and price information was available and more than 20 network operators ( inter alia CompuServe and Dow Jones). Additional databases (for example, information on weather, arrivals and departures) were added in 1988. 1999 Cathay Pacific was the first airline to through their own website their frequent flyer program participants offered online access to a travel information system of OAG. In August 2000, the new Internet portal OAG.com was launched, which offers direct access to the OAG database. The site also supports OAG Mobile, the wireless access to the OAG Travel Information for WAP or GPRS mobile phones and PDAs offering.
Nowadays OAG Worldwide studied continuously Product Reviews, to develop new technologies for its databases.
Products
OAG data
OAG is best known for its airline schedules database. This includes future and historical flight details of 1,000 airlines and more than 3,500 airports. Through these enormous databases OAG offers a variety of multilingual products for the aviation industry that are available digitally over the Internet, PDAs and cell phones, or as print versions. OAG data also provides for the management, distribution, display and analysis of passenger and cargo flight data. These include data files, internet flight schedules, flight instruments for analysis, flight status indicators and SMS notification services for airports, airlines and travel-related websites.
OAG Cargo
In this part of the OAG database addresses the cargo aviation, by providing cutting-edge information on the freight transport in the world. OAG Cargo uses the same database of OAG data.