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Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport Chooses OAG to Provide Flight Status and Timetable Services.


CHICAGO -- Web-based Flight Information Display System (FIDS FIDS Flight Information Display System
FIDS Feathered Kids
FIDS Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (now the British Antarctic Survey)
FIDS Forest Insect and Disease Survey
FIDS Forest Interior Dwelling Species
), text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length.  and printed/online flight guide increases awareness and makes traveling more convenient for consumers

OAG OAG Office of the Attorney General
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, the global travel and transport information company, today announced a new service agreement with Brownsville South Padre Island Padre Island (päd`rē, păd`rē), low, sandy island, c.115 mi (185 km) long, less than 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, S Tex. It is characterized by large, irregular sand dunes, sparse vegetation, and a strong prevailing wind off the Gulf of Mexico.  International Airport. Brownsville has chosen OAG to provide a Web-based Flight Information Display System (FIDS), SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM.

(2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server.
 Flight Alert Messaging service and printed/online flight schedule solutions. These offerings coincide with Brownsville's "Are We There Yet?" campaign promoting the fact that the Brownsville South Padre Island is the closest airport to the Island and the two largest cities along the border, Brownsville and Matamoros.

Travelers are now able to obtain real-time flight status information via the airport's website at www.flybrownsville.com as well as receive flight updates via their cell phone. Brownsville South Padre Island is the first airport in Texas or Mexico to offer "Flight Alert" to the traveling public. They are also the only airport currently offering customers real-time flight updates in the Rio Grande Rio Grande, city, Brazil
Rio Grande (rē` grän`dĭ), city (1991 pop.
 Valley. This area serves three million people annually across a sixty mile radius supported by five different airports. As part of the "Are We There Yet" campaign, 15,000 printed flight guides are distributed four times a year in travel centers, hotels, restaurants and other businesses across the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico promoting the airport's services as well as area businesses and tourist attractions Noun 1. tourist attraction - a characteristic that attracts tourists
attractive feature, magnet, attractor, attracter, attraction - a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees"
. Brownsville South Padre Island also plans to integrate the OAG FIDS offering into their airport monitors to mirror the real-time information currently available on the website.

"The key to our success has been creating awareness with travelers that we are the first choice when traveling to and from the Rio Grande Valley and northern Mexico. And, once engaged with the consumer we have provided superior customer service in all facets of the traveling experience" said Michael Jones Mike or Michael Jones may refer to:

In sports:
  • Michael Jones (footballer) (born 1987), English footballer
  • Michael Niko Jones (born 1965), rugby union player and coach
  • Mike Jones (linebacker) (born 1965), American football player
, Brownsville's director of business development. "The OAG solution has been an integral component in our ability to more effectively communicate with customers online, in the terminal and at surrounding businesses. As a result of these efforts we have significantly grown our business, doubled the number of available Continental Airline flights and increased our load factor from 80% to 88%."

The Web FIDS, SMS Flight Alert and printed/online timetable offerings are part of OAG's Data Solutions umbrella of products, which includes a variety of data and decision support tools for the aviation industry.

--OAG Flight Status - Real-time flight status information such as delays, cancellations and gate changes. The information is available in three formats including a Web FIDS display on the airports website or terminal monitors, XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 data feed for integration into existing technology and SMS messaging for real-time flight updates directly to consumers via text messaging.

--OAG Timetables - OAG's Timetables provide cost-effective branded marketing and schedules distribution solutions to airlines, airports and other travel related customers, reaching millions of travelers worldwide. Timetables can be delivered in a variety of formats including online, print, PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  for web display, downloadable to your PC/laptop or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . (Palm or pocket PC device)

--OAG MAX - Online market intelligence for the aviation industry. OAG MAX is a critical component enabling airports to analyze the competition, improve customer service and assist in the airport expansion decision process. OAG MAX is available online, CD or via custom data pulls.

--OAG Airport Activity Report - This comprehensive report provides airports a comprehensive snap shot a quick offhand shot, without deliberately taking aim.

See also: Snap
 of the activity at their facility as well as the competition's airport. Many airports use this report for gate management, staffing or expansion programs to name a few.

"OAG's airport solutions are an invaluable tool in helping airports grow their business and improve customer service to travelers", said Nancy Fleming Nancy Anne Fleming (born ca. 1942) won the Miss America crown in 1961.[1]

A native of Montague, Michigan, Fleming competed in the Miss America pageant as Miss Michigan. She competed in Miss Michigan as Miss White Lake[2].
, OAG's airport sales manager sales manager ngerente m/f de ventas

sales manager ndirecteur commercial

sales manager sale n
. It is extremely exciting and rewarding to play such a critical role in the growth of Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Brownsville and remain committed to helping them provide a first class experience to travelers."

For more information on OAG's airport solutions please call 1-888-589-6340 or email dataservices@oag.com.

About OAG

OAG is a global travel and transport information company.

We have three core activities:

--managing and distributing information within the passenger and cargo aviation sectors

--providing travel information to business travelers

--Providing advertising and promotion opportunities for the aviation and travel communities

Our business is underpinned by our data management expertise. We hold a breadth of travel related content and are best known for our airline schedules database. This holds future and historical flight details for 1,000 airlines and more than 3,500 airports. Every ten seconds a flight is updated on the OAG system. Over the coming year we are tracking around 27 million departures.

Using these vast databases, we provide a broad range of multi-lingual products for business and consumer customers, available in virtually any way the customer wants it: Internet, PDA, mobile, digital and print.

We provide a suite of solutions for managing, distributing, displaying and analyzing passenger and cargo flight data. These include data files; internet timetables; flight analysis tools; flight status displays and SMS alert services for airports, airlines and travel-related web sites.

Our activities span both passenger and cargo. In the cargo area additional services include airfreight air·freight  
n.
1. A system of transporting freight by air.

2. The amount charged for transporting freight by air.



air
 rates and messaging services.

We are a private company with 400 employees based in 9 offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

More information about our company, our products and our services is available on our web sites www.oagdata.com, www.oag.com and www.oagcargo.com.

About Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport

BRO bro  
n. pl. bros Slang
1. A brother.

2. Friend; pal. Used as a form of familiar address for a man or boy: So long, bro.
, South Padre Island and Brownsville's International Airport has a history of firsts going back to 1929 when Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindburgh opened the airport landing with the first air mail from Mexico City Mexico City
 Spanish Ciudad de México

City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi
. Passenger service followed immediately with Pan American Airways airways Anatomy The 'pipes'–trachea, bronchi, bronchioles–through which air passes to and from the alveoli. See Small airways. , Mexicana and Braniff. The first jet engine was tested here. In the 1990's BRO was the first airport in the region to offer all jet passenger service and now it is first again by offering Flight Alert to its customers.

Just a short 18 miles from what the Travel Channel calls America's third best beach, South Padre Island, passengers can ride a $2 shuttle to and from the Island. This service is free to participating hotels. BRO now offers more flights than ever before and has become the airport of choice for its sister city Matamoros, Mexico, a friendly, historic, industrial boom town of one million that is joined to Brownsville by the Rio Grande River, called the Rio Bravo on the Mexican side.

The airport just added a new secure FREE overflow parking lot to handle all the additional traffic and unprecedented growth. A new Bistro featuring fresh fruit drinks, espresso, delicious regional dishes, entertainment with a new travel shop and newsstand opened in July. You can learn more about Brownsville South Padre Island International at www.flybrownsville.com including real time flight schedules and OAG's flight finder tool to plan travel from BRO to anywhere in the world.
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