The challenge

Airline schedules data is critical to feed into IBA’s award-winning products, dashboards, and advisory offerings. Tracking the performance and capacity of hundreds of airlines a year, producing accurate and actionable insights, and ensuring that they achieve and maintain the highest quality of data is essential to both IBA and their customers.

With an analytics-first approach to building products, IBA needed a trusted partner who could deliver reliable, accurate, and comprehensive Schedules data through a flexible platform designed to scale and grow. With data needed to build dashboards in IBA Insight and IBA Airlines, they also needed to surface the deep context required for their consultancy services, along with being able to future-proof and develop products and services. IBA needed a market-leading partner who could offer support, advice, and guidance on a long-term basis to transform their current tech and innovate.  

The solution

Powered by Snowflake, OAG’s Flight Info Direct, a cloud-enabled platform, is a ready-to-query interface that enables the entire travel ecosystem with high-quality aviation data. Flexible and integration-friendly, Flight Info Direct provides a pathway to improve operational processes through automation and secure access to the latest and freshest data. This provides a single source of truth and allows teams to dig into the details, getting just the insights they need, or viewing the entire database for an accurate overview of the landscape, all in one place. With Flight Info Direct, IBA has unlocked versatile, reliable and comprehensive data that can supercharge their product innovation. 

Using Flight Info Direct, IBA can access the highest quality and most comprehensive Global Airline Schedules Data, spanning from 2019 to a 12-month, forward-looking projection. With rich frequency and capacity data, Global Airline Schedules Data provides key data points, such as core flight schedule data, flight segments, and legs, operating and marketing flights, aircraft type, and much more. IBA Insight’s Global Capacity and Operator Capacity dashboards are powered by Schedules data, and their award-winning dashboards display charting tools allow users to make selections to understand capacity at a global level, and capacity at an operator level. 

Flight Info Direct has transformed the way IBA builds, develops and delivers its analytics products and advisory. With the deep insights Schedules data surfaces, teams can replicate, adapt, and apply data points across their tech offering due to its reliable versatility. By combining IBA’s proprietary data with OAG Global Airline Schedules Data, IBA can provide both the products and the insights that their customers want and need. 

The results

After implementing Flight Info Direct, IBA has gone from strength to strength in product development, providing quality advisory, and cementing its place as the market leader. IBA have been enabled to power their offering with the highest quality Schedules data from OAG. Producing innovative and versatile solutions and delivering accurate and powerful advisory, IBA have enhanced their market-leading reputation.  

With everything in one place, IBA’s customers and clients can now access the insights that they need and confidently gain the insight to make data-informed decisions and strategise for success. These key differentiators have enabled IBA to gain market share, earn trust and unlock opportunities for development and expansion. IBA’s successes with Flight Info Direct, both commercially and operationally, mean they are in the perfect position to keep building products that their customers love, innovate sustainably, and lead the industry with OAG.