Expedia.com Expedia, Inc., Northwest Airlines and KLM Announce New Agreement

BELLEVUE, Wash. – April 2, 2001 – Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE), has reached an agreement with Northwest Airlines and KLM under which Expedia® will continue to act as an agent for those airlines and will do so without adding a surcharge to the published price of airline tickets.
The terms are not material to Expedia's financial results. Details of the agreement are confidential.

About Expedia, Inc.

Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) operates Expedia.com® (www.expedia.com), a leading online Web site in the United States with localized versions in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. To help customers travel right, Expedia.com provides the best combination of air, car and hotel booking, vacation package and cruise offers, destination information, and mapping. Industry experts agree. Expedia's quality and leadership was recognized through several awards, including both PC Magazine's “Readers' Choice” and “Editors' Choice” Awards, Yahoo! Internet Life's “Best Overall Travel Site,” Smart Business' MVP Award, Gomez Advisors' “Number One Travel Site for Fall 2000” and PC World's “2000 World Class Award for Best Travel Site.”

Expedia.com customers are supported by a credit card guarantee (U.S. site only), an industry-leading privacy policy, and live agents via e-mail and an 800-number available 24 hours a day/seven days a week. Expedia.com is also available under Travel on the MSN® network of Internet services.

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