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American Airlines Named ''Airline of Choice for Travelers with a Disability'' at the OAG Awards 2006
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. --(Business Wire)-- May 18, 2006 -- Later tonight at the OAG Airline of the Year Awards 2006, at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, American Airlines will be presented with the award for "Airline of Choice for Travelers with a Disability" by Alan Whicker, CBE.
This is a new award for 2006. Eddie Bell, Chairman of OAG commented:
"We have introduced this award in response to our customers. They have been asking for airlines to be recognized for putting themselves out to make travel as easy as possible for disabled people.
"Too often when traveling, those with a disability can find things more difficult than able-bodied passengers, which should not be the case. From the comments that came in via the survey it is clear how much people value the extra care and consideration that is shown by certain airlines. American Airlines is highly regarded for making disabled travellers feel comfortable and respected."
The OAG Airline of the Year Awards are based on votes polled from OAG's worldwide customer base of business travelers, and their votes are based on personal experience.
Further Information:
The full results of the Awards will be on the Airline of the Year section of the OAG web site after midnight on Thursday 18th May at www.oag.com.
All press enquiries/interview requests should be directed to: Margareta Stanley at on 0207 930 3636, email dba@nchl.demon.co.uk
US contact: Kathy Marr, 630-515-3240
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 travellers
-- 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 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.oag.com, www.oagdata.com, www.oagcargo.com and www.inforwarding.com
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