Frontier Airlines Selects Expedia’s WWTE Private Label Service to Power Its Online Travel Bookings
BELLEVUE, Wash., March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) today announced it has signed a multi-year agreement under which the Expedia® Worldwide Travel Exchange (WWTE™) private label technology will power the hotel and car rental offerings for Frontier Airlines’ online travel booking services. This partnership enables Frontier customers to book hotel rooms and rental cars at http://www.frontierairlines.com/.
“We’re pleased to provide Frontier our technology and broad selection of travel offerings that will help them enhance value for their customers and earn incremental revenue,” said Ronnie Gurion, director of business development, Expedia, Inc.
“We want FrontierAirlines.com to be the one-stop shop for our customers, and this partnership helps us achieve that goal,” said Dan Vorlage, Frontier Airlines senior director of marketing and sales. “Expedia’s WWTE technology will enable us to deliver our customers a world-class online travel shopping experience and the convenience of booking their entire trip on our site.”
WWTE powers online travel bookings for some of the world’s leading airlines. With WWTE’s private label service, airlines can offer their customers access to industry-leading travel products and services from Expedia, at no cost to the airline associated with developing, hosting or maintaining such products and services.
About Worldwide Travel Exchange (WWTE)
Worldwide Travel Exchange (WWTE), operated by Travelscape, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Expedia, Inc., provides private label booking solutions for travel suppliers looking to enhance their product offerings. The WWTE private label solution gives travel suppliers the ability to enhance their own Web sites with industry leading cross-sell and dynamic packaging solutions offering access to highly competitive travel products and services. Additional information about WWTE can be found at http://www.expedia.com/daily/associates/privatelabel.asp.
About Expedia, Inc.
Expedia, Inc. is the world’s leading online travel company, empowering business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel. Expedia, Inc. also provides wholesale travel to offline retail travel agents and in-destination concierge service and activity desks for travelers. The Expedia, Inc. portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com®, hotels.com®, Hotwire®, Expedia® Corporate Travel, TripAdvisor®, Expedia Local Expert™, Classic Vacations® and eLong™. Expedia, Inc.’s companies operate more than 50 global points of sale with sites in North America, South America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Expedia, Inc. is a component of the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit http://www.expediainc.com/ (NASDAQ: EXPE).
About Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc.
Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Denver-based Frontier Airlines. Currently in its 14th year of operations, Frontier Airlines is the second-largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport, employing approximately 6,000 aviation professionals. Frontier Airlines’ mainline operation has 62 aircraft with one of the youngest Airbus fleets in North America. Frontier Airlines’ mainline operations offers 24 channels of DIRECTV® service in every seatback along with a comfortable all coach configuration. In conjunction with its regional jet fleet, operated by Republic Airlines, and a fleet of ten Bombardier Q-400 aircraft operated by Lynx Aviation (a subsidiary of Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc.), Frontier offers routes linking its Denver hub to 70 destinations, including 62 U.S. cities in 36 states spanning the nation from coast to coast; six cities in Mexico; one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. In November 2006, Frontier and AirTran announced a first-of-its-kind integrated marketing partnership that offers travelers the ability to reach more than 80 destinations across four countries with low fares, aboard two of the youngest fleets in the industry. For more in-depth information on Frontier Airlines, please visit its Web site at FrontierAirlines.com.
Expedia and Expedia.com are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Expedia, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Classic Vacations is either a trademark or registered trademark of Classic Vacations, LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. hotels.com is either a trademark or registered trademark of hotels.com, L.P., a subsidiary of hotels.com in the U.S. and/or other countries. Hotwire is either a trademark or registered trademark of Hotwire, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. TripAdvisor is either a trademark or registered trademark of TripAdvisor, LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other logos or product and company names mentioned herein may be the property of their respective owners.
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