Mon, Jan 26, 2015
Acquires FlightView To Boost Real-Time Flight Information Offerings
OAG, a provided of flight schedules and related analytics, says it has strengthened its position at the forefront of the expanding market for real-time flight status information with the acquisition of leading Boston-based real-time flight information solutions provider FlightView Inc.
FlightView's products help aviation and travel professionals achieve superior customer service, operational efficiencies, and have attracted strong brand loyalty with easy to use real-time information. FlightView brings more than 600 B2B customers from the travel, technology and general aviation sectors. In addition, FlightView's smart phone apps have been downloaded more than 3 million times, its website has over 1 million monthly unique users and it responds to over 300m flight status requests every month.
"Real-time flight status information is increasingly important to a wide range of customers," said Phil Callow, chief executive of OAG. "From airlines, airports and online travel businesses to fuelling companies, this data is key to enhancing passenger experience, driving operational efficiencies and traveller-centric services these companies now are eager to pursue.
"OAG has 80 years of expertise in flight data and aggregation, with a flight status database now holding nearly 10 years of historic data. The acquisition of FlightView, with its highly complementary customer base and strengths in the US market, propels us to a leadership position internationally, with unquestionably the most comprehensive combination of flight status and schedules data. The strengthening of our capabilities further consolidates OAG's role as the trusted single source for high-quality aviation intelligence products and services."
With the world's most comprehensive and definitive schedules database of more than 900 airlines, including 113 low-cost carriers, and 4,000 airports, OAG processes more than 21 million flight status updates every month, equivalent to 715,000 each day.
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