SideStep’s travel search engine to power major enhancement to OAG Flights service
Official Airline Guide (OAG), the world's authority on global flight information, announced today the ability to search fares and make bookings on its flight look-up service, OAG Flights.
OAG has extended its partnership with SideStep, the Internet's leading travel search company, to integrate a fare search and booking facility on OAG Flights, the only online flight lookup service that displays every scheduled flight worldwide - including low cost airlines. Fare search and booking capability is available immediately on OAG Flights. David Rosen, managing director OAG Travel Services, said: "OAG is the original source of the flight schedules information you see on most travel websites, but without the bias. We are introducing fares and booking to our online service as a direct result of customer feedback. Our subscribers love the completeness and simplicity of OAG Flights, and want the ability to book as well. We already use SideStep to power bookings on our hosted timetable solutions for airports and we are delighted to extend our partnership to offer our business and leisure travel customers the most comprehensive flight search on the web." Tim Simmonds, Director of Business Development, Europe, said, "SideStep's innovative real-time search technology further enhances OAG's current online experience for travellers and those who arrange travel. OAG Flights customers now have the ability to compare fares from more than 200 leading travel sites via SideStep's search engine to find the Web's best travel bargains, and then click through to make a booking directly with the relevant online agency, consolidator or airline." OAG Flights is a subscription-based service. It shows departure and arrival times, flight durations, airport and terminal information and related information about direct and connecting flights. Subscribers are also able to keep track of a flight's real time status to check whether it is on-time or delayed. - ends - For further information about OAG please contact:
Christopher Pickard at DBA Public Relations
Tel +44 (0)20 7930 8033 Email: chris@dbapr.co.uk
or
Alison Pickering, Head of Corporate Communications, OAG
Tel: 44 (0)1582 695477 Email: apickering@oag.com
For further information about SideStep please contact:
Jo Greensted or Rebecca McKinlay at Ambition Communications (UK)
Tel +44 (0)20 8971 3377 Email: sidestep@ambition-communications.co.uk
or
Sabrina Crider, Director, Corporate Communications, Sidestep Inc (US)
Tel 001 408 200 4959 Email: scrider@sidestep.com
About Official Airline Guide (OAG)
Official Airline Guide is a global flight information and data solutions company for the passenger aviation, air cargo logistics and business travel markets. It brings together buyers and sellers of air travel and transport through the management and distribution of airline product information; the supply of corporate travel planning tools; and the promotion of travel and transport products. OAG is part of Commonwealth Business Media (www.cbizmedia.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of United Business Media plc (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com). It operates globally in three vertical sectors: Aviation Services, Cargo Services and Travel Services, and incorporates the technical consulting and data expertise of CBM’s other leading aviation brand, BACK Aviation Solutions (www.backaviation.com). More information about the company, its products and its services is available on the OAG web sites www.oag.com, www.oagdata.com and www.oagcargo.com.
About SideStep, Inc.
SideStep, the Internet's leading travel search company, delivers the most comprehensive selection of travel choices at the best prices to more than 6 million consumers each month. SideStep has been named one of TIME Magazine's "50 Coolest Web Sites," a PC World "World Class Site" and one of its "Best Products of 2006," and declared "Best of the Web" by both Forbes and BusinessWeek Online. The company has direct relationships with the largest travel suppliers in the industry and works with a variety of leading world-class brands, providing relevant information regarding travel products from more than 600 airlines, 170,000 hotels and 30,000 car rental sites worldwide. The Company also operates TravelPost.com (www.travelpost.com), the Web's largest independently owned hotel review community, and TripUp.com (www.tripup.com), the fastest growing community and social travel network on the Web. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SideStep is privately held and has raised more than $30 million in funding from Trident Capital.
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