OAG, the international travel information provider, is seeking a new owner.
Parent company Reed Elsevier, which also owns Airline Business, put the business up for sale after a strategic review that will see the group focus on scientific, legal and business publishing - the last of which includes this magazine.
OAG is, perhaps, best known for its trademark airline flight guides, backed by a database holding schedule information on over 800 carriers. But OAG has been looking to expand into new areas of the travel market, making use of its brand and reach among business travellers "We are focusing our development effort on opportunities available through wireless media for the mobile traveller and on networked products for corporations that support productivity and policy compliance," says chief executive Paul Virik.
OAG is working with Vodafone to make flight data available on the latest palm-held computers and via the Internet on mobile telephones.
Source: Airline Business
