Official Airline Guide
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Products
[edit] OAG data
OAG is best known for its airline schedules database. This holds future and historical flight details for 1,000 airlines and more than 3,500 airports. Using these vast databases, OAG provides a range of multi-lingual products for the aviation industry, available on the Internet, PDAs, mobile-phones, digitally and via print. OAG data also provides for the managing, distributing, displaying and analysing of passenger and cargo flight data. These include data files; internet timetables; flight analysis tools; flight status displays and SMS alert services for airports, airlines and travel-related web sites.
[edit] OAG cargo
The OAG database here caters to the aviation cargo industry, providing up-to-date cargo flight information around the world. OAG cargo utilises the same database as OAG data.
