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 future-proof 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

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 revolutionises how organisations 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.

Schedules data

Hahnair'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 its own internal airline network analysis.

Seats data

Seats 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.

Master data

Master Data underpins Schedules Data by standardising and understanding the thousands of industry codes used by the various organisations within the aviation industry. 

With Master Data via Flight Info Direct, teams have full access to insights that are clean, standardised, and enable the smooth running of code sharing across their partnerships.

Connections data

Connections Data enables the aviation industry with key insights into global connections. Refreshed on a weekly basis, Connections Data provides information on a range of connection types, configurable by airline, airport, region and date.

With the flexibility and customisation 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 creates versatile reports that are relevant now and in the future.

The results

After implementing Flight Info Direct, Hahnair has strengthened its 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 are minimised. 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 analyse routes, direct flights, connections, and assess distances for their airline partners. Hahnair’s Route Maps are a visualisation 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.