OAG (company)
OAG Worldwide Limited, also known as the Official Airline Guide, is a United Kingdom based travel news, data and ranking service. The organisation has over 450 staff members and 9 worldwide offices in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Official Airline Guide provides database administration in the area of aviation, travel and hotels. Currently, an electronic database is provided over the Internet with over 1,000 airlines and 3,500 flights daily. The OAG also issues awards for the Airline of the Year.
OAG is a division of Commonwealth Business Media, a subsidiary of United Business Media.
History
The OAG first started out in 1853 as the ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide (now OAG Rail Guide). Following this, the first publication of the "Official Aviation Guide Of The Airways" was issued in 1929 in the United States, listing 35 airlines offering a total of 300 flights. In 1970 the OAG Pocket Flight Guide was published, enabling business travellers to have a pocket-sized resource onboard.
The OAG Electronic Edition was launched in 1983. This was OAG's first online travel planning tool, containing both flight and fare information and available via more than 20 system operators including Compuserve and Dow Jones. Additional databases (weather, arrival/departure information) were added in 1988. In 1999, Cathay Pacific becomes the first airline to give its Frequent Flyer Club members online access to OAG Travel Information System through its website. In August 2000 the all-new travel portal OAG.com is launched. It offers web access to the OAG database. The site also supports OAG Mobile which offers wireless access to OAG travel information via web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs.
Today, OAG Worldwide has constantly sought customers' opinions in creating new technologies for their databases.
OAG brings together buyers and sellers of air travel and transport through its portfolio of products and services.
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Our Travel Solutions provide corporations, individual business travelers and travel arrangers with the world's foremost travel planning and booking tools. Our suite of online, mobile and print reference products are recognized globally as the world standard. OAG-branded consumer products include the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date online flight search service, OAG Flights; itinerary building tools OAG Travel & Flight Planners; and printed reference products such as OAG Flight Guide and the regional OAG Pocket Flight Guide.
Our Aviation Solutions provide airlines, airports and the air transport industry with the most accurate single source for airline information, analytical services and asset valuation support. The portfolio combines the strength of OAG's worldwide airline distribution services including schedules distribution, timetables, codeshare services and connections marketing, with BACK’s aviation intelligence covering global aircraft fleets, capacity supply, traffic demand, and financial/operating performance.
Our Cargo Solutions provide the global air cargo community with an expanding portfolio of innovative products and services. The air freight community portal oagcargo.com includes tools for routing and shipment planning, Dangerous Goods regulations, a real-time air freight rates database, air and road schedule data, tracking and analysis solutions and multi-media cargo schedule products. The renowned Inforwarding service has more than 30,000 registered freight forwarding and airline users in 26 markets worldwide.