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Orbitz started selling airline tickets over the Internet on June 1, 2001. It is owned by five major carriers and supported to a lesser degree by 37 more 'charter associates.' [...]

Byline: Julia Lawlor With additional reporting by Sonal Dutt You know about Expedia.com and Travelocity.com--one-stop cyber travel agencies that provide everything from airline tickets to car rentals and vacation packages. [...]

Byline: KATE MADDOX Orbitz L.L.C., an online travel business that launched last year, rocketed into the b-to-b market Sept. 3 with Orbitz for Business. The new service is aimed at [...]

THE DECLINE IN TRAVEL brought on by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the weakened economy have forced airlines and travel companies to cut costs wherever they can. As […]

National Report--Hotel companies have spent a lot of time and money trying to regain control of their Internet reservations and distribution. They are battling a dizzying array of third-party Internet [...]

Orbitz is more than just an upstart travel site-it's owned by five of the largest airlines: American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, and United. Using its market-share muscle, Orbitz has signed agreements […]

orbitz.com Savvy travelers have been buying airline tickets online for years using self-service travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity.com. It was only a matter of time before the airlines figured […]

Southwest Airlines Co. last week fired another salvo in its battle with Orbitz LLC by withdrawing its flight data from Airline Tariff Publishing Co. (ATPCO), a company that supplies airline […]

Despite a series of outages in its first week, airline consortium travel Web site Orbitz attracted visitors in droves, becoming the fastest-growing site on the Internet, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. In […]

Amid mixed economic signals, the E-Business Barometer slipped to 19 in May, a 14 percent decrease from April. E-business stocks closed the month down slightly; merger and acquisition activity for […]

Expedia and Travelocity.com are scrambling now that the new megasite for airline tickets is offering lower fares. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS JUST HIT THE online travel business, and its name is […]

Popularity proved to be a double-edged sword last week for Orbitz LLC, the travel marketplace sponsored by multiple airlines that finally launched and conducted $4.3 million in sales in its […]

Taiwan's EVA Air, Alamo Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and California's Fox Rent-a-Car will all join Orbitz as charter [...]

Coming Soon: Innovative ways for flyers to buy and sell tickets online Travel site explosion. As if there weren't already plenty of places to buy an airline ticket on the [...]

Making sure that they can send data from their legacy systems to their Web sites isn't the airlines' only Internet problem. As they bid for a greater slice of the […]

Jeff katz, chairman, president and CEO of Orbitz-the startup travel site backed by five major airlines-was a few minutes late to a press briefing earlier this month. His plane was […]

WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR not, booking airfares on the Internet is here to stay. Increasingly, airlines are offering their best deals only on the Web, and as they continue [...]

The Op-Ed, 'Managing Travel A Surer Shot Than A $10 Silver Bullet' (BTN, June 7), suggests buyers who realize savings with the new online corporate travel model compromise the effectiveness [...]

THE TOP THREE ONLINE BOOKING SITES, EXPEDIA, ORBITZ and Travelocity, are out to win your business. They're now full-service travel agencies with robust products to help small companies save big [...]

NEW YORK -- Orbitz isn't eager to copy Expedia and Travelocity in opening itself up to travel agent bookings, according to Jeffrey Katz, chairman and CEO of the online travel […]

MELISSA KARZ CHIEF EXECUTIVE KADIMA COACHING AND CONSULTING Harvardbusinessline.hbsp.harvard.edu There is no question that Harvard Business Review provides the most cuffing-edge business research. I use this for professional reasons, and [...]