Orbitz Price Assurance® refunds hit $10 million mark Orbitz announced that it has refunded $10 million through its Price Assurance® program. Pamela Bailey of Los Angeles, CA received the Price Assurance refund check that broke the $10 million mark. “While I had heard about Price Assurance before booking my trip, I didn’t realize Orbitz really [...]
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Departure taxes are the final “gotcha” when you’re flying. Just as you’re getting ready to board a flight back home someone asks you for money, and threatens to deny you boarding if you can’t cough up the cash.
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American Airlines (AA), one of the most aggressive airlines in the recent spate of actions and lawsuits regarding airline ticket distribution, was just instructed by an appeals court to reinstate their ticketing options and full ticket inventory on Orbitz that AA pulled last December.
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In a twist worthy of a bad comedy, American Airlines (AA) that refused to do business with Orbitz and forbade the online agency from selling their product, is suing the online agency for excluding them. Are you shaking your head? I am too.
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Orbitz responds to AA lawsuit, catnaps in the control tower may be good, TSA responds to security lapse in Memphis
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Orbitz recently announced results of a nationwide survey of travelers to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. The survey sought to understand how consumers perceived the experience of traveling as having changed since Orbitz’s inception. There’s reason for both hope and concern in the results.
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Enterprise Holdings, which owns and operates the largest fleet of rental cars in the world under the Alamo Rent A Car, National Car Rental, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car brands, will announce today that it is ending its relationship with Orbitz.com and its sister site CheapTickets.com on April 1 after “months of difficult discussions.” I asked Pam Nicholson, the president and chief operating officer of Enterprise Holdings, to explain the decision and what it means to travelers.
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2012 Olympics tickets on sale, Orbitz vs Kayak over hotel booking deal, rerouting Japan flights to avoid radiation
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Lufthansa contest for world’s biggest plane, Orbitz hurting from AA ticket loss, improving the 777 in the works
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When looking into a crystal ball, it helps to have data from hundreds of thousands of users to see trends in the market. Orbitz may not have a crystal ball but does have in-house industry experts who sift through millions of bytes of data that have helped determine three travel trend predictions for 2011.
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