Expedia.com is a travel booking website owned by Expedia Group. The website can be used to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises and vacation packages. It does not allow users to book flights to Cuba, including non-US citizens flying to that destination from outside the US. The limitation, however, is not transparent. As of 5 April 2018, if a user selected Havana as a detination the search engine would accept it and propose flights to Keywest, Florida, as the nearest airport.
Expedia is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company is expected to relocate to Seattle, Washington in 2019.
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History
Expedia.com launched on October 22, 1996 as a division of Microsoft. In 2001, Bill Gates spun off the property to become a public company. Rich Barton became Expedia's CEO.
In July 2001, USA Networks, Inc. bought Expedia from Microsoft.
In December 2010, listings for AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines and American Eagle Airlines, were removed from Expedia's site. The decision resulted from a dispute over the degree of access to the site's customers. AMR reversed its decision in April 2011, allowing tickets to once again be sold through the aggregate site.
In June 2014, Expedia started accepting bitcoins.
In September 2014, Expedia Inc. partnered with Citigroup and created the Expedia+ card whose members can earn bonus points and earn benefits and priority customer service through the website.
In 2017, the company announced it would be moving its headquarters to Seattle in 2019.
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Management
Expedia.com functions as an operating company of Expedia, Inc.
References
Further reading
- Alexander, Todd (2012). Everyday Internet at Any Age. Hachette UK. Chapter 8. ISBN 0-7336-2971-7. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- Barr, Alistair (January 21, 2014). "Expedia hit by big drop in Google search traffic". USA Today. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- Tims, Anna (March 29, 2014). "Expedia needs to speed up £2,500 refund for flights". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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