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ORBITZ.CA

Orbitz.ca is the Canadian site of the popular
ORBITS.COM travel site.

Orbitz Worldwide is an Internet travel company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Orbitz.ca - Through its primary web site Orbitz.com, Orbitz Worldwide enables travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products.

Orbitz Worldwide is a publicly-traded company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: OWW), following its initial public offering (IPO) in July 2007.

Orbitz Worldwide’s largest investor is Travelport, one of the world’s largest networks of travel brands, content and service offerings.

Other Orbitz Worldwide online travel companies include: CheapTickets® (cheaptickets.com) and the Away Network (www.away.com) in the Americas; ebookers® (www.ebookers.com) in Europe; and HotelClub (www.hotelclub.com) and RatestoGo (www.ratestogo.com), based in Asia Pacific with operations globally. Orbitz Worldwide also owns and operates a corporate travel company, Orbitz for Business.

Orbitz was the airline industry's response to the rise of online travel agencies such as Expedia and Travelocity, as well as a solution to the continued increase in Global Distribution System GDS fees. Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and United Airlines, subsequently joined by American Airlines, invested a combined $145 million to start the project in November 1999.

It was code-named T2 — some claimed, meaning "Travelocity Terminator" – but adopted the brand name Orbitz when it commenced corporate operations as DUNC, LLC (the initials of its first four founding airlines) in February 2000. The company began Beta testing early the next year, and Orbitz.com officially launched in June 2001. Homes For Sale In Calgary

From ORBITZ annual report:

In 2007, our company achieved several major goals:

• We completed our initial public offering of common stock and built our public company

infrastructure, largely completing the transition of our corporate functions from Travelport to

our internal staff.

• We increased our total net revenue by fourteen percent for the year. Our international

businesses were particularly strong, as net revenue grew twenty-eight percent, while net revenue from our domestic sites gained eleven percent.

• We began migrating our ebookers sites onto our new global technology platform. The new

platform offers significant enhancements, such as enabling us to offer our customers triple the number of hotel choices and a much broader selection of vacation packages. In 2007, we

completed the migration of the United Kingdom and Ireland to this more powerful platform.

• We doubled the size of our international hotel sourcing team, which is responsible for building relationships with a growing number of hotels in Europe and Asia.

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