HAHNAIR
Hahnair builds innovative customer-facing and internal solutions using oag data
With innovation at their heart, Hahnair uses OAG Data to futureproof and develop cutting-edge products for their customers and internal processes. From interactive Route Maps to extensive internal reporting, Hahnair use OAG's Flight Info Direct to unlock comprehensive data sets. Here's how they do it.
Hahnair'S Story
Hahnair is a German airline specializing in scheduled and executive charter services, and the market leader in providing distribution services for airlines and ticketing solutions for travel agencies. Hahnair provides ticketing solutions to 100,000 travel agencies across 190 markets and their partner network covers over 350 partner airlines.
Through their partnership with airlines and travel agents, Hahnair serves millions of passengers across 4,000 locations and provides customers with more choice of airline carriers, routes, and destinations.
The Challenge
Connecting thousands of travel agencies with millions of passengers on behalf of hundreds of airline partners worldwide is an incredibly complex operation. Success requires high-quality and accurate aviation data delivered via a versatile and reliable platform.
Hahnair needed a fresh, complete, accurate and high quality tailored feed of Airline Schedules Data delivered via a platform that would easily integrate with their systems with minimal disruption to their day-to-day operations.
With innovation at the heart of Hahnair, they required access to these deep data sets for a variety of internal and external use cases and to futureproof their efforts. They also required access to comprehensive Seats, Connections, and Master Data, and for those data sets to be delivered via an adaptable and powerful platform with integrations to Tableau. Their teams needed to be able to dig into the details, while also being able to view the full database when required, to gain detailed overviews of the aviation landscape and for a variety of internal and external use cases to futureproof their efforts.
The Solution
Partnering with OAG, Hahnair implemented Flight Info Direct to access Global Airline Schedules, Connections, Seats and Master Data to supercharge their market analysis, market coverage and expansion plans.
Flight Info Direct, powered by Snowflake, is OAG’s ready-to-query cloud-based platform, that enables the entire travel ecosystem to access high-quality aviation data. Built to scale and grow alongside customers, Flight Info Direct is a single source of truth that provides a wide range of integration options. It revolutionizes how organizations in the aviation industry are safeguarding their technology for the future.
By using Flight Info Direct, Hahnair can now access Global Flight Schedules Data, Seats, Master Data and Connections Data all in one place.
Learn moreHahnair's teams can quickly access insights such as powerful frequency and capacity information, alongside data points such as departure/arrival times, flight date, departure/destination airports, and much more, with Schedules Data. By using Schedules Data with Flight Info Direct, Hahnair can power their own internal airline network analysis.
Learn moreSeats Data via Flight Info Direct provides daily updates and, with global coverage, surfaces key data points such as total seats on an aircraft, along with a breakdown of seats by cabin.
By blending Schedules Data with Seats, the team can have an even more accurate understanding of the markets and benchmark against their airline customers’ competitors.
Learn moreMaster Data underpins Schedules Data by standardizing and understanding the thousands of industry codes used by the various organizations within the aviation industry.
With Master Data via Flight Info Direct, teams have full access to insights that are clean, standardized and enable smooth running of code sharing across their partnerships.
Learn moreConnections Data enables the aviation industry with key insights on global connections. Refreshed on a weekly basis, Connections Data provides information on a range of connection types, configurable by airline, airport, region and date.
Learn moreWith the flexibility and customization that Flight Info Direct provides, Hahnair uses Schedules, Master, Seats, and Connections Data to power a range of internal and external products. Using Flight Info Direct, Hahnair builds a range of powerful customer-facing products and create versatile reports that are relevant now and in the future.
The results
After implementing Flight Info Direct, Hahnair have strengthened their data efficiency and commercial strategies. The flexibility of Flight Info Direct allows Hahnair to delve into the necessary data points and seamlessly blend multiple data sets with ease. Building automations with Flight Info Direct means that manual handling, time taken processing and the margin of human error is minimized. After Hahnair rolled out access to Flight Info Direct to their data teams, data silos have been eliminated, giving teams more autonomy, flexibility, and data transparency and teams receive reliable and relevant reports, exported directly from Flight Info Direct’s integration with Tableau.
Alongside supercharging their internal operations, Hahnair also uses Schedules, Master, Seats, and Connections data to create innovative customer-facing products, with OAG data powering Hahnair’s interactive Route Maps. OAG enables Hahnair to analyze routes, direct flights, connections and assess distances for their airline partners. Hahnair’s Route Maps are a visualization of routes that provide information such as the carrier airline, departure and arrival airport and the distance in miles.
With less time being spent on manual processing, Hahnair can now spend more of their time doing what they do best - developing cutting-edge products that drive industry innovation, supporting their partners in every step of their distribution journey and ensuring their partners’ business growth.
FROM HAHNAIR
“Our partnership with OAG has allowed us to focus and plan for the future. OAG’s data coverage, quality and delivery gives us the flexibility we need to access multiple views and utilize the data we need with ease. Working with OAG makes sense for Hahnair altogether and I’m very happy with our partnership”
Linda Pommer, Head of Commercial Analytics & Development, Hahnair
OAG has the most flexible frequency delivery capability in the market. Its fast and easy to use data solutions and APIs ensure flexible integration and enable technology providers to manage and control their own supply of air travel data – which maximizes efficiency, saves money and creates an unrivalled competitive advantage. OAG’s schedules and flight status data solutions have become the number one choice for technology providers, travel management companies and innovators.