Location app Ok Away partners with Air Doctor

15 August 2022

Melbourne-based insurtech Ok Away has partnered with Israeli tech company Air Doctor.

Launched last year, Ok Away is a safety app that allows travellers to share information such as their mapped location, address, local time, history, itinerary arrivals, departures and failure to arrive.

Under the partnership, travellers can access local doctors via a link through the Ok Away app to the Air Doctor platform, which operates in 75 countries.

“It’s an exciting time to grow a travel tech platform with the return to travel,” Ok Away Founder and CEO Veronica Hey said. “We are keen to form new partnerships in the travel space to expand further”.

Ok Away, which is participating in the US based Newchip Accelerator Program, says travellers follow each other with mapped GPS location, sharing their travel history, check in, local time and so on.

“You can set up place alerts for others or share travel plans with alerts sent to followers when you arrive/depart or are late for any itinerary location. Being a safety app, Ok Away will also inform you if any of your contacts are inactive for more than 14 hours or have a low phone battery level,” it says.

Ok Away also hosts a ‘Missing Pages’ community social enterprise, that allows users to post missing persons and alerts are sent to all our members in that world location, alerting users within a 350km radius of where someone went missing. It was recently recognised at a Missing Persons Forum, where NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector Glen Browne said “We strongly support the Ok Away app and its intent”.

Air Doctor has a global network of over 20,000 medical professionals across 2,000 cities.