Home ›› News & Events ›› Press Releases ›› 2007

2007

Qatar Airways, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has made a worldwide commitment to publish service announcements and airfreight rates to customers using OAG Cargo’s communications portal www.oagcargo.com.

Mike Navin has been appointed Managing Director of OAG Cargo to spearhead the next stage of development for the fast-growing communications portal for the global air cargo industry.

300 million seats offered in a month for the first time

World’s airlines offer 5% more flights

Transatlantic route shows significant growth pre full impact of Open Skies

Aircraft orders rise by 30%

BACK Aviation Solutions, a leader in providing strategic and technical consulting and data information services to the aviation industry, announced the release of their new Carbon Emissions Calculator. Developed in partnership with flight information and data solutions company OAG, the Carbon Emissions Calculator allows airlines to calculate their carbon footprints by equipment type, airline, airport, route, country or world region.

Commonwealth Business Media (CBM), the leading information provider to the global trade and transportation market, today announced a major restructure of its OAG business, designed to bring greater global focus on serving its customers in the aviation, cargo and corporate travel industries worldwide.

Alan Glass, President and CEO of Commonwealth Business Media (CBM) has announced the promotion of Mario Hardy to the position of Vice President of the Asia Pacific Region for the Official Airline Guide (OAG), a subsidiary of CBM. CBM is a business unit of United Business Media plc.

  • World’s airlines offer 114,000 more flights and 17.7 million more seats year on year
  • 12 million more low cost seats
  • Low cost sector now accounts for 16% of all flights worldwide and 1 in 5 of all airline seats
  • Significant rises in transatlantic flights

The over 35,000 regular international airline and freight forwarding users of OAGCargo.com, the leading information portal for the cargo industry, now have access to road transport services to over 200,000 zip codes in the United States and Canada via the Air Cargo Inc. (ACI) door-to-door services database.

  • Airlines timetable 100,000 extra flights
  • 280 million ticket sales target
  • Low-cost flights up 15% globally, with Asia accounting for more than half
  • Middle East shows strongest growth
  • Flights to and from Europe up 8%, low cost up 57%
  • Middle East, Africa set the air transport pace
  • UK domestic market matches global growth rate
  • Aviation’s recovery enters its fifth year