The two charts below show that the overall number of page views at the top airline websites as well as the top online travel agencies has moved down over the last 12 months.
At the same time the dollars transacted online has increased. My immediate conclusion is that consumers are growing more comfortable with shopping for […]
Travelocity is testing a slick tool for exploring your next holiday. Nice use of the latest tools for searching through images and video. Right now this application is still in Travelocity’s lab.
Anyone else notice that Expedia has completely revamped its home page? Looks pretty sharp.
American and Expedia just put out a joint press release announcing that Expedia is now showing all of American’s fares again. You may recall that there was a tiff between the two companies that was officially announced on January 11th. Today’s announcement answers the question of whether this was going to be a three week […]
I bumped into this by chance this morning. It appears that Travelocity is experimenting with a new “no-frills” site at www.cheaptotravel.com. I tested the air search and the results definitely look like Travelocity.
The domain name is registered to Travelocity.com LP and was last updated on January 5, 2007.
Based on the limited google search results, it […]
According to the New York Times, Travelport has selected UBS to explore an initial public offering for Orbitz. Sources are saying Orbitz along with CheapTickets and eBookers would be valued at around $3 billion
The Beat is reporting that Travelport is considering a possible IPO for Orbitz including the other online assets of CheapTickets and eBookers.
Orbitz’s first IPO was back in the fall of 2003 when it was majority-held by the carriers.
Orbitz was purchased by Cendant in September 2003 for $1.25 billion.
In June, 2006 Orbitz became part of Blackstone […]
The Associated Press reported on Friday that Expedia decided to move some of it’s American bookings off of Worldspan this week. For air bookings in the US the only other GDS supporting Expedia is Sabre. (Expedia does process some of its bookings through Amadeus in Europe.)
It would appear that the issue between American and Expedia […]
Jay Campbell at the Beat has tracked down more information about American’s recent announcement. His update indicates that the issue does include Worldspan.
The statements by both Expedia and American are somewhat contradictory so I don’t know that we have the full story yet.
Jay does write that Expedia’s Corporate Travel Program is not affected by […]
American’s announcement last night that it is pulling first and buisness class fares as well as all international fares from Expedia will impact Expedia’s ability to service the corporate travel market.
As background, the first airline to pull its inventory out of Expedia was Northwest back in Oct 2002. At that time Northwest was complaining about […]
