Is there any web sites that offer completly unbiased scheduling information like OAG but is free ?

Where you do not need to initiate any kind of booking to get the schedule ? and offers al flight including low cost (like Ryanair)

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I never used this for outside of the US, but check out:

http://www.flightlookup.com/index.html

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Most LCCs like Ryanair do not subscribe to schedule publication services like OAG and hence you would not find their schedules listed there.

I have a recent edition of the OAG Express (i.e., the pocket version of the OAG), and both Ryanair and Easyjet are included in there - which surprised me a bit as I always thought OAG took their information straight from "the system" and neither airline is in the system.

Aviatrix:

Both Ryanair and Easyjet submit their schedule data in industry-standard SSIM format to the timetable co-ordinators. Go always used to do this and Easy carried the process on when they took them over.

But OAG has always reached out to the non-standard airlines (although not as well as the much-missed ABC World Airways Guide from the UK), and it must cost them a lot of staff time to do this. Virgin Atlantic amazingly do not follow the industry standard (apparently they just e-mail Excel spreadsheets to interested parties), and Southwest in the USA do not do so either. OAG have to get all this in manually. And there are many third-world and minor operators that do not do so. Some are in OAG, some not.

Back to the original question I use Electronic Travel Desk by Goldenware Travel Technologies which does give all the industry-standard details, and is up to date. These are the people who do both the Star Alliance and the OneWorld downloadable system timetables you can get from those airlines' websites; they have extended this as an independent product to give all the schedules they have access to. So all the US majors (except Southwest), and even most of Virgin Atlantic comes in under Continental codeshares.

http://www.lencom.com/desc/indexN9774.html

Thank you for your suggestions I am tying them now.

I erlier asked a similar question regarding a fare look up replacement for ABC Worldairway guide (not availble as WHBM pointed out) where you can see IATA fares MPM and TPT information and such (especially to to find Milage premium points and long way low fares that can be routed thorugh STO) but I have nit been able to fina any good resouces for this other then 20 kusd software sold by IATA. Any suggestions for that ?

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Originally posted by Aviatrix:
Back to the original question I use Electronic Travel Desk by Goldenware Travel Technologies which does give all the industry-standard details, and is up to date. These are the people who do both the Star Alliance and the OneWorld downloadable system timetables you can get from those airlines' websites; they have extended this as an independent product to give all the schedules they have access to. So all the US majors (except Southwest), and even most of Virgin Atlantic comes in under Continental codeshares.

A good product, but PAINFULLY slow on both my computers (P4s with 512MB RAM)...

Not sure what your problem is. Mine on a perfectly ordinary Compaq Evo N110 works in a flash.