AOGtion – new channel of business for hotels & transport companies

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AOGtion is the first fully-integrated mobile e-Auction platform that connects airlines with competitively priced hotels and transportation companies during flight disruptions.

AOGtion is the first fully-integrated mobile e-Auction platform that connects airlines with competitively priced hotels and transportation companies during flight disruptions. This is when it is critical for airlines to secure hundreds of reasonably priced hotel rooms and buses for passengers quickly.

Air traffic worldwide is expected to increase by 30-40% between 2015 and 2025.

This level of growth will result in unprecedented levels of flight delays and cancellations. The advent of super Jumbos, such as the AirBus380 with a maximum capacity of 853 passengers, coupled with inclement weather, airport and airspace congestion, and security issues intensifies the problem.

Between December 1, 2013 and February 28, 2014, more than 90 million airline passengers in the United States alone were disrupted by nearly 109,000 flight cancellations and 894,000 flight delays.
One-Stop Shop for Airlines, Hotels, and Transport Suppliers.

AOG has developed AOGtion, an app that establishes a โ€œone-stop shopโ€ and virtual marketplace for hotels to liquidate nightly vacant rooms on a real- time basis using dynamic pricing.
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๏ฟผAirlines can access the app from major airports worldwide and procure rooms in one click instead of the traditional method of calling each hotel, a process that can take hours using valuable human resources with no guarantee of success.

Hotels typically operate at less than full occupancy every night, with vacancy factors, which creates a perpetual cycle of income loss and continues to compromise hotelsโ€™ bottom line. Similarly, transportation companies operate with excess buses or capacities that, if fully utilized, will contribute to their financial success.

Hotels and transport companies can upload daily unused capacities and rates through AOGtion to secure a new and consistent channel of business.

AOGtion, designed exclusively for airlines, hotels, and transport suppliers, is provided at no cost to participating airlines. AOGtion supports both โ€˜smartโ€™ and โ€˜non-smartโ€™ phones including the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android phones, iPads & all tablets.

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Linda Hohnholz

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