The Official Airline Guide has been the travelers' friendly guide for over centuries. Since over 150 years now, the OAG has been guiding travelers to their destinations all over the world and making journey much simpler and more convenient for them. Today the Official Airline Guide is looked upon as a very reliable source of travel information, helping people across the continents to plan their travel itineraries as conveniently as possible. However, this reliability was certainly not achieved in a day. There is a long past that goes with the reputation that OAG has garnered in today's times.

The Official Airline Guide was launched in 1853 for the first time in the United Kingdom, and that time it was certainly not in its online version. It was called as the ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide at that time, and helped people simplify their railways travels. It was a printed booklet then, and listed all the stations and trains within the UK. In the late 1920 the airlines became a very important part of national travel, and that was when the ABC Alphabetic Railway Guide expanded to form the Official Aviation Guide of the Airways. This basically operated in the United States, and in 1929 it had 35 listed airlines and about 300 flights.

It was not until 1983 that the first online version of the Official Airline Guide was launched and it became popularly known as the OAG Electronic Edition. At this time, the OAG consisted of information like a very exhaustive database on the airlines schedules, known as the OAG data and the information on the cargo carriers, which were known as the OAG cargo.

The Official Airlines Guide is today a very vast service helping the travelers all over the world to choose from flights from about one thousand airline companies which fly to more than 3,500 airports. This covers almost the entire globe. In addition, the Official Airlines Guide gives other vital updated information like the weather conditions and delays or cancellations of flights, which helps people to alter or modify their plans. People can also book flights since the Official Airlines Guide hosts booking for airline companies. They also give information about the first and the last flights on each day of each airline, which is really quite beneficial to people who are making their travel plans.

It is without a doubt that the OAG has today become the largest flying information service in the globe and is catering to several thousand people each day from all countries across the world.


Author's Bio:

Sean is a very frequent user of the Official Airline Guide and he never makes any travel plans without first consulting this guide. There are a few more reviews he has written about the guide. You can read them at his own website available at:http://www.officialairlineguidereview.com