AVIATION intelligence provider OAG has signed a deal to provide daily airline schedule feed to Amadeus, offering travel consultants worldwide access to timely, updated flight information.
“Amadeus is the first global distribution system to use a daily OAG schedule feed,” said John Grant, EVP networks of UBM Aviation, parent company of OAG. “This enables travel (consultants) and their customers to access more accurate information when they’re looking to book a flight.”
Approximately one third of the flight schedules in the Amadeus system are now based on OAG’s data.
Containing schedules for over 1,000 airlines and more than 4,000 airports worldwide, the OAG database tracks over 28 million departures a year ahead, and processes up to 50,000 airline schedule-change messages per day.
David Doctor, Amadeus director of distribution marketing, said: “Airlines change their flight schedules to enhance margins, meet market demand and seize competitive advantage, and it is key that this information is made available quickly to travel (consultants).”
“With this new agreement, we can ensure that, for airlines which file their information in OAG, schedule changes are processed and new flights proposed for sale, immediately on the day.”
