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...Mr Bhutani, a nine-year veteran of Expedia, most recently served as president of Brand Expedia Group where he oversaw the online travel company’s brands including Travelocity and Orbitz....
...Mr Harford, who was previously chief executive of Orbitz and a board director at United, has been working with Uber as an advisor to the company for the last two months and will begin the role in January...
...Mr Quattrone then founded Qatalyst, which has just 41 professional staff members, and has focused on selling recently-listed start-ups such as booking sites OpenTable or travel group Orbitz to large tech...
...Orbitz is growing more slowly in part because it is mostly a US business, and faster growth is overseas....
...American and Orbitz had a similar dispute a few years ago, and settled it. This may be why Orbitz shares have only fallen 5 per cent....
...Still, American has yet to resolve ongoing disputes with several other important distribution partners including Orbitz, the travel website, and Travelport, one of the three main GDS’s....
...Expedia said the new set-up was an expression of solidarity with Orbitz as well as a move to head off “a possible disruption in Expedia’s ability to sell American Airlines tickets when our contract with...
...Shares in Expedia were down 0.4 per cent at $25.51 while Orbitz shares were unchanged at $5.25....
...Orbitz shares slid to $5.63 and are now down about 23 per cent year to date....
...Permira and Axa Private Equity plan to make a joint €500m ($681m) bid for Opodo on Tuesday, as they seek to build a European champion in the internet travel market to challenge Expedia and Orbitz of the...
...The city is one of the US’s main travel hubs and home to United Airlines, for example, so it made sense for Orbitz, the online travel company founded by five of the US’s biggest air carriers, to be based...
...Travelport also owns about 48 per cent of Orbitz Worldwide, a publicly listed online travel company....
...Mr Steinitz himself has written about and photographed his visits to more than 50 countries and helped to build Away.com, later sold to Orbitz....
...Presumably the investors being sold to are less likely to be sitting on a loss from the Orbitz float which might help ease the process along....
...Its major competitors are Travelocity, Orbitz and Priceline.com....
...Blackstone Group will remain Orbitz’s biggest holder, the Journal reports....
...With not a tinge of sadness, Jeff Clarke, chief executive of Travelport, owner of the Orbitz online travel site and the Galileo reservations system, explains why the stunning view of New York’s Central Park...
...Travelport also owns Ebookers, the travel website, and Orbitz, its US counterpart, as well as the Galileo reservations system....
...Websites such as Expedia and Orbitz have transformed the world of shopping for airfares, hotels and car hire....
...The Travelport business, which includes airline reservation system Galileo and online travel operator Orbitz, is still suffering from the botched acquisition of Ebookers in the UK....
...Orbitz was founded in 2001 and acquired by Cendant for $1.25bn in 2004....
...The troubled unit that includes online travel agencies Orbitz and Ebookers and travel reservations system Galileo could be worth $4bn....
...which could be worth $4bn and includes the Galileo reservations system and the Orbitz online travel website ?...
...On Friday morning, Blackstone announced it was buying the Cendant unit, which includes the Orbitz online travel site and the Galileo reservations system, in a deal worth $4.3bn in cash that capped a three-month...
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