Press Releases 2007
OAG Partners with SideStep
30 January 2007
SideStep to Power Fare Search and Booking via OAG’s Airport Web Sites
OAG, the global travel and transport information company, announced today it has struck a partnership deal with SideStep, the internet’s leading travel search company.
This collaboration enables OAG to integrate a fare search and booking facility within its hosted timetable solutions. OAG currently provides timetable solutions to some of the world’s largest airports and the integration of SideStep’s functionality will enable timetable visitors to search and compare fares for flights into or out of a particular airport and then click through to make a booking.
The new service is available immediately.
Duncan Alexander, MD Europe at OAG, commented: “Our partnership with SideStep offers tangible benefits to our airport customers around the world. We now can offer airports the ability to extend their online offering and we expect most will want this option on their web sites.”
Kevin Eyres, MD SideStep Europe, said, “Travel search is an ideal way for site owners to offer their customers a first rate travel experience. SideStep’s innovative real-time search technology further enhances OAG's current travel services by providing its timetable customers with the most comprehensive travel search on the web.”
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Note to Editors:
There are two live demo sites available; one for flights to and from London Heathrow and one for Chicago O’Hare. You can view how the new fare search and booking service works in a live environment at:
http://timetables.oag.com/lhr and http://timetables.oag.com/ord
For further information about OAG please contact:
Christopher Pickard at DBA
Tel +44 (0)20 7930 8033 Email: chris@dbapr.co.uk
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 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 five 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 results from more than 600 airlines, 150,000 hotels and 30,000 car rental sites worldwide. The Company also operates TravelPost.com (http://www.travelpost.com/), the Web's largest independently owned hotel review community. For more information, visit http://www.sidestep.com/.