Friday, December 25, 2009

OAG Flight Guide

OAG Flight Guide : Reed Travel Group Ltd. of Great Britain publishes OAG Flight Guide every month. It is the completeguide to air travel.In this guidebook the infomation related to air travel are listed in alphabeticalorder and in a systematic sequence. It is believed that it contains each and every information relatedto airlines, airport and their timetables/schedules. Earlier it used to be called ABC Guide, and how a itis published as OAG Flight Guide. Sometimes it may be published in one volume but mostly publishedin two volumes. It it is published in two volumes, the first part is popularly known as BlueABC or OAG and 2nd part being red in color known as RED ABC or RED OAG. The 1st Part will containthe information regarding the airlines, city codes, airlines code, City to City Schedules of the cities fromA to M alphabetically. The 2nd part contained the information related to City to City Schedules from N to Z and some information related to fare. Those two volumes together comprised total information of flight schedules.The system of coding and decoding was developed even before the modern computerized communication system was developed. Moderncommunication system also follows the same system. To handle travel matters through computerized network one should have basicunderstading of the system that is in The OAG Book.

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