Flight Schedule Service OAG Partners With Microsoft and Snowflake for Data Upgrades
Photo Credit: A flight board at London's Heathrow Airport. OAG, an aviation and information intelligence provider, has introduce a new portal thanks to help from tech from Microsoft and Snowflake. Skift / Sean O'Neill
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Aviation folks of a certain vintage will recall how OAG used to publish passenger flight schedules in book format once a month. My, how times have changed.
OAG Aviation Worldwide, a provider of flight schedules and status data, revealed on Thursday it is launching OAG Metis, a consolidated data platform for the industry to access.
The tech overhaul is backed by British venture firm Vitruvian Partners, which bought OAG for $215 million in February 2017.
The new data delivery vehicle Metis reflects an ongoing digital transformation led by chief technology officer Nick Dearden’s, who joined in August 2019. Metis resulted from Dearden's two-year push of moving OAG's systems to cloud-based storage provider Microsoft Azure. OAG can now more flexibly scale its solutions globally as needed.
OAG, once known as the Official Airline Guide and currently based in Luton, UK, had been a vital source of information for aviation for decades. It gathers data on flight schedules, delays, takeoffs, and landings from approximately 97 per
