OAG Partners With Star Alliance to Offer a Flight Tracker Service to Passengers
Posted on: Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 15:00 CST
CHICAGO, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- OAG, the global travel and transport information company, announced today it is providing a fully hosted flight status alert service for the Star Alliance network. This is available through the recently relaunched Star Alliance web site and provides business and leisure customers with a service which alerts them to changes to the scheduled departure or arrival time of a flight.
The Flight Tracker alert service enables customers traveling on the Star Alliance network to track flights of any member airline, irrespective of where they are based, and also to track interline flights where customers connect between two or more member carriers.
Customers simply register online to receive alerts via email or SMS message to a mobile phone or device.
OAG's Flight Tracker service is powered by data supplied directly by the Star Alliance member airlines.
Joe Laughlin, Vice President of Sales and Services for OAG Americas, commented: "The OAG Flight Tracker alert service compliments the existing alert services which some Star Alliance member carriers already provide in their home markets. The OAG service works for anyone, anywhere, for any direct or connecting flight on the Star Alliance network.
"Star Alliance is a significant customer for us because it is the largest airline alliance with its member airlines representing around one third of all flights in the world. We are delighted to be a part of the new Star Alliance web site. It's a great example of how OAG can use its technological capabilities to provide information to customers via the channel of their choice."
Philip Saunders, Vice President Commercial Star Alliance said: "It has always been Star Alliance's aim to provide customer benefits over and above those offered by our individual member carriers. Making flight tracking for all flights operated by our 17 member carriers available through our new website is a further good example of this and we are glad to be working with OAG in order to provide this innovative customer benefit."
About OAG
OAG is a global travel and transport information company. It has three core activities:
-- managing and distributing information within the passenger and cargo aviation sectors -- providing travel information to business travelers -- providing advertising and promotion opportunities for the aviation and travel communities.
OAG's business is underpinned by its data management expertise. It holds a breadth of travel related content and is best known for its airline schedules database. More information about the company, its products and its services is available on the OAG web sites http://www.oag.com/ , http://www.oagdata.com/ and http://www.oagcargo.com/ .
OAG is part of Commonwealth Business Media ( http://www.cbizmedia.com/ ), a wholly owned subsidiary of United Business Media plc ( http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/ ).
About Star Alliance
The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer customers worldwide reach and a smooth travel experience. Star Alliance was voted Best Airline Alliance by Business Traveller Magazine in 2003 and 2006 and by Skytrax in 2003 and 2005. The members are Air Canada, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, bmi, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, SWISS, TAP Portugal, THAI, United and US Airways. Regional member carriers Adria Airways (Slovenia), Blue1 (Finland) and Croatia Airlines enhance the global network. Air China, Shanghai Airlines and Turkish Airlines have all been accepted as future members and are expected to join Star Alliance soon. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers more than 16,000 daily flights to 855 destinations in 155 countries.
OAG
CONTACT: Kathy Marr, VP Marketing OAG Americas, +1-630-515-3240, orkmarr@oag.com ; or Markus Ruediger, Star Alliance, +49-69-96375183, ormarkus.ruediger@staralliance.com
Web site: http://www.oag.com/http://www.staralliance.com/http://www.oagdata.com/http://www.oagcargo.com/http://www.cbizmedia.com/http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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