Sadly, that doesn't let you create a Hangout on Air. Hangouts on Air would be an absolutely killer feature if only it worked reliably :(

What would you want to use it for? It seems like HOA sessions for most of the use cases that spring to mind would be scheduled ahead of time, and therefore not suffer as much from the bad-contact-list issue.

There are all kinds of gaps even then. For example, you can't invite a google organization (company) to the event directly in any smooth fashion. The solution is to copy the link and e-mail it to your list. After that, there's no way to restrict viewing of the recording to an organization.

This is just one example of a poor integration between two Google products, but those few little gaps in permissions and utility made it a product that didn't work for my needs at least.

Definitely I want to schedule them ahead of time! But then when the time comes, Will it even work? Last week for the life of me I could not get the Record button to come up on the HOA I had scheduled a week prior and for which I saved the URL. I cycled through all my Google accounts hoping I had mistakenly created it in another account, but no luck. And no feedback whatsoever regarding what my privileges were in the Hangout, nor any indicator in the Google Plus homepage or Hangouts dashboard for my accounts. So I gave up. I know I created this darn HOA with one of my accounts, you HAVE to be logged into a Google account to create one! Like I said, HOA is a killer product, but it's sad that has only become less useful since it first came out, since now I can't even use it at at all!