about the online travel agency the soft drink Orbitz soft drink distinguish Orbits Infobox Company company name Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. company logo Image OrbitzTravel logo.png 250px company type Public ... publisher Orbitz Worldwide date 22 April 2009 accessdate 11 October 2009 ref ref name hoovers cite web title Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. Overview url http www.hoovers.com orbitz worldwide ID 101230 free co ... 2008 ref name hoovers homepage http www.orbitz.com orbitz.com Commented out Image Orbitz for biz.png thumb Orbitz for Business logo Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. NYSE OWW is an Internet travel company headquartered in Chicago , Illinois . Through its primary web site Orbitz.com, Orbitz Worldwide enables ... searches and one million hotel searches every day. ref cite web title Orbitz developer presentation url http www.slideshare.net jseidman windy citydb final 4635799 publisher Orbitz Worldwide date 15 July 2010 accessdate 15 October 2010 ref Orbitz Worldwide is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange following its initial public offering IPO in July 2007. Orbitz Worldwide ... owned by various entities, Orbitz.com the flagship brand of Orbitz Worldwide has been in operation since 2001. Other Orbitz Worldwide online travel companies include CheapTickets , and the Away ... 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 ... Terminator &ndash but adopted the brand name Orbitz when it commenced corporate operations as DUNC ..., as well as Orbitz s primary competitors at the time Expedia, Sabre, Travelocity, Galileo spent ... the airlines agreed not to cut deals with competing sites under more favorable terms than with Orbitz the airlines agreement to release certain discount fares only to Orbitz or other entities at Orbitz ... Orbitz was breaking out the service fee from the ticket price, not making the total price clear ... more details
About the soft drink the online travel agency Orbitz Infobox VG title Orbitz File Orbitzsoda.jpg thumb center Orbitz Soft Drink. Orbitz was the product name of a noncarbonated fruit flavored beverage, made by the company Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation makers of Clearly Canadian , that had small edible balls floating in it. It was introduced around 1997 and quickly disappeared due to poor sales. The drink was marketed as a texturally enhanced alternative beverage but some consumers compared it to a potable lava lamp . ref name Time cite news url http www.time.com time specials packages article 0,28804,1913612 1913610 1913561,00.html title Top 10 Bad Beverage Ideas publisher Time magazine Time accessdate 23 April 2010 date 23 April 2010 ref The small balls floated due to their nearly equal density to the surrounding liquid, and remained suspended with assistance from an ingredient known as gellan gum . The gellan gum provided a support matrix something like a microscopic spider web and had a visual clarity approaching that of water , which increased with the addition of sugar . The website for Orbitz existed for a while, but was taken over by the Internet travel agency of the same name see Orbitz . Unopened bottles of the beverage have become something of a collector s item in recent years, appearing as novelty items on online auction websites. ref name Time Flavors Raspberry Citrus introductory flavor Blueberry Melon Strawberry introductory flavor Pineapple Banana Cherry Coconut introductory flavor Vanilla Orange introductory flavor Black Currant Berry introduced later Charlie Brown Chocolate introduced later See also Bubble tea Basil Basil seeds Basil seed drink References references External links http www.lanceandeskimo.com chefelf bev orbitz.shtml Extinct Beverage Tasting raSpbeRrY CitRus Orbitz http www.bevnet.com reviews orbitz BevNET Orbitz http findarticles.com p articles mi m0EIN is 1997 April 14 ai 19309350 Clearly Canadian launches Orbitz in Canada Category ... more details
Infobox Court Case name Milgram v. Orbitz court New Jersey Superior Court image imagesize imagelink imagealt caption full name Milgram v. Orbitz Worldwide, LLC date decided August 26, 2010 citations http www.scribd.com doc 37008339 Milgram v Orbitz Milgram v. Orbitz Worldwide, LLC , ESX C 142 09 N.J. ... . italic title yes In Milgram v. Orbitz Worldwide, LLC , ref name Milgram Milgram v. Orbitz Worldwide, LLC , http www.scribd.com doc 37008339 Milgram v Orbitz ESX C 142 09 N.J. Super. Ct. Aug. 26, 2010 ... Ticket Resellers Get Significant 47 USC 230 Win Milgram v. Orbitz last Goldman first Eric date 7 ... directly from these sellers. At no point did TicketNetwork possess the actual tickets for sale. OrbitzOrbitz Worldwide, LLC owned CheapTickets and operated CheapTickets Exchange, an online marketplace site similar to the TicketNetwork Exchange. Orbitz entered an agreement with TicketNetwork that made ... Two of the resellers settled out of court, but Orbitz and TicketNetwork moved to dismiss the state ... law. Arguments New Jersey alleged that Orbitz and TicketNetwork committed acts of deception, fraud ... that did not exist in the concert venue. The state also claimed that Orbitz and TicketNetwork violated ... that did not exist in the concert venue. ref name Milgram As a defense, Orbitz and TicketNetwork .... The state responded that Orbitz and TicketNetwork were ineligible for 230 c 1 immunity because ... content providers rather than merely interactive computer services. ref name Milgram Issues Were Orbitz ... content providers? The court rejected the state s argument that Orbitz and TicketNetwork were information ... the control that Orbitz and TicketNetwork exercised over their sites content. Orbitz s control was largely formal, with requirements as to where Orbitz s name, logos, and other design elements should be located, but Orbitz also retained the ability to insert certain links and request removal of content ... that the Orbitz and TicketNetwork were not information content providers. In its view, the defendants ... more details
COI date March 2009 Steve Barnhart born in 1961 in Iowa was president of OrbitzOrbitz Worldwide NYSE OWW , from September 2006 to January 2009. With 20 years experience in finance and consumer brands, Barnhart led the Orbitz Worldwide global portfolio of online travel brands, including Orbitz , CheapTickets and the Away Network in the Americas, ebookers in Europe, and HotelClub.com and RatesToGo.com ... 9&ac Five Point Plan Guides Online Travel Firm Orbitz And Its New Pilot. Investor s Business ... initiatives to integrate Orbitz Worldwide s technology platforms, provide new services for unmanaged ... findarticles.com p articles mi qn4155 is 20061218 ai n16897432 pg 1 Barnhart has travel plan for Orbitz rise to the top . Chicago Sun Times. Dec 18, 2006. ref ref New online store launched by Orbitz ... news.cfm Orbitz Goes Green, Launches Eco Friendly Travel Site. Connexion. April 23, 2007. ref He also largely directed the partial spin off of Orbitz Worldwide in an initial public offering on July 20, 2007, which Orbitz s then parent company, Travelport, announced in March 2007. ref http www.forbes.com feeds ap 2007 07 19 ap3933776.html Orbitz IPO Priced at 15 Per Share. AP. July 19, 2007 ... 1&desc Orbitz to give IPO another go Orbitz to give IPO another go. Chicago Tribune. March 15, 2007. ref Barnhart joined Orbitz in May 2003 and was a member of the team that took the original Orbitz, Inc. public in December 2003. Following Cendant Corporation s acquisition of Orbitz in 2004, he led ... travel unit within Cendant Travel Distribution Services. He was named President and CFO of Orbitz ... CEO at Orbitz. Reuters. April 17, 2007 ref and served as a Director after the IPO. He resigned ... title Orbitz Names Harford CEO, Plans More Cost Cuts work The Wall Street Journal ... Advisors. Professional History Prior to joining Orbitz, Barnhart held various finance positions ... links http www.orbitz.com Orbitz Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Barnhart ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Extremely Reusable Monitoring API is a method of standardizing the instrumentation API which allows greater reuse of the data collected. Events captured in today s log messages, for example, might be better expressed using ERMA as this allows the data to be routed to an analysis tool in the future without grepping log files. ERMA is part of a Complex Event Processing platform developed at Orbitz Orbitz Worldwide . ERMA has been open source d along with another component of the system, http graphite.wikidot.com Graphite . ERMA is available under the Apache License Apache License 2.0 . External links http erma.wikidot.com ERMA Wiki https launchpad.net erma ERMA at Launchpad http github.com smullins7 erma tree master ERMA at GitHub Other articles http news.cnet.com 8301 13505 3 9979041 16.html Orbitz paves the way to enterprise open source contributions http www.infoq.com news 2008 06 orbitz opensource erma Orbitz Open Sources Monitoring Tools ERMA and Graphite DEFAULTSORT Extremely Reusable Monitoring Api Category Computer libraries database stub ... more details
became Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. ref cite news first Steve last Gelsi title Orbitz files second IPO, eyes 750 mln work MarketWatch url http www.marketwatch.com news story orbitz go public online story.aspx ... 20 ref In 2009, Orbitz was sued by the state of New Jersey for alleged violations of the state s Consumer ... 230 of the Communications Decency Act , and Milgram v. Orbitz was dismissed. References Reflist External links http www.cheaptickets.com CheapTickets.com http corp.orbitz.com Orbitz Worldwide, Inc ... retail companies of the United States Category Orbitz brands Category Companies based in Chicago, Illinois ... more details
NOTOC Summary Orbitz Online Travel logo. Licensing Non free logo Automatically converted to PNG The User PNG crusade bot PNG crusade bot automatically converted this image to the more efficient Portable Network Graphics PNG format. The image was previously uploaded as OrbitzTravel logo.gif . Previous file history 03 04 55, 1 April 2006 UTC . . User SEANBROSNAN SEANBROSNAN User talk SEANBROSNAN Talk Special Contributions SEANBROSNAN contribs . . 856x294 14,227 bytes nowiki Orbitz Online Travel logo. nowiki Previous description history 18 36 20, 10 August 2007 UTC User Andros 1337 Andros 1337 User talk Andros 1337 Talk Special Contributions Andros 1337 contribs nowiki badGIF nowiki 23 53 35, 23 April 2007 UTC User Cydebot Cydebot User talk Cydebot Talk Special Contributions Cydebot contribs nowiki Robot Renaming non free template logo per nowiki Wikipedia Non free content templates nowiki . nowiki 03 04 55, 1 April 2006 UTC User SEANBROSNAN SEANBROSNAN User talk SEANBROSNAN Talk Special Contributions SEANBROSNAN contribs nowiki Orbitz Online Travel logo. nowiki ... more details
Bahman Koohestani is a former executive at Netscape , and was the co founder of the Toronto software company Delano company Delano . He had formerly run the messaging division at Netscape, and Delano was founded to create software to allow companies to easily transfer information between their back and front offices. Prior to his time at Netscape, Koohestani was the Senior Director and Chief Architect of Electronic Forms and Commerce at Delrina . Koohestani has currently left Orbitz LLC. In March 2002, Delano was bought by divine inc divine . External links http www.infoworld.com articles hn xml 00 03 31 000331hndelano.html The CEO of Delano discusses E business Interaction Suite, the company s platform for various e business apps http www.findarticles.com p articles mi qa3755 is 200203 ai n9047338 Divine to acquire Delano Technology for 1.1 revenue http www.msi.net jackb XDL news 990128 delano.html Delano Technology Corporation Receives Seed Funding and Announces Executive Team Category Netscape Koohestani, Bahman ... more details
Lodging.com , part of Cendant s Travel Distribution Services division, promoted negotiated and Galileo CRS accommodations online through own and affiliate websites. In total, their inventory consisted of over 60,000 hotels and other types of lodging . Lodging.com was established in 1995 as Travelbase, an online ski guide. Shifting to online hotel reservations in 1997, the company grew its independent brand until Cendant acquired the .com in 2002. Lodging.com is notable as an early developer of a hotel affiliate program. In these revenue sharing programs, third party websites resell Lodging.com hotel room inventory in exchange for a commission. Lodging.com no longer exists as an independent web site. As of July 2006, when users visit the site they are forwarded to Orbitz . See also Tourism Travel Affiliate Online hotel reservations External links http www.lodging.com Lodging.com Category Online retailers Category Cendant brands ... more details
160 countries and has over 5,500 employees. Travelport also owns approximately 48 of OrbitzOrbitz Worldwide nyse OWW , a leading global online travel company. Travelport is a private ... was formed in August 2006 , when Cendant sold Orbitz and Galileo to Blackstone Group The Blackstone ... 147699028.html Orbitz travels to 4th owner Blackstone Group to buy from Cendant. , Chicago Tribune ...?pid 20601087&sid a5zd1iiOoP5g&refer home Cendant to sell Orbitz to Blackstone for 4.3 Bln , Bloomberg.com ... of Travelport and chairman of the board of Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. Shortly after the Blackstone ... of OrbitzOrbitz Worldwide in an initial public offering IPO . The IPO was priced on July 20, 2007 ... more details
Gellan gum is a water soluble polysaccharide produced by Pseudomonas elodea , a bacterium . Chemical structure The repeating unit of the polymer is a tetrasaccharide which consists of two residues of D glucose and one of each residues of L rhamnose and D glucuronic acid . The tetrasacharide repeat has the following structure br D Glc 1 4 D GlcA 1 4 D Glc 1 4 L Rha 1 3 sub n sub . As it is evident from the formula the tetrasacharide units are connected with each other using an 1 3 glycosidic bond. Microbiological gelling agent Gellan gum, also branded by few suppliers as AppliedGel , Phytagel or Gelrite , is used primarily as a gelling agent, alternative to agar , in microbiological culture. It is able to withstand 120 C heat, making it especially useful in culturing thermophilic organisms. One needs only approximately half the amount of gellan gum as agar to reach an equivalent gel strength, though the exact texture and quality depends on the concentration of divalent cations present. Gellan gum is used as gelling agent in plant cell culture on petri dishes, as it provides a very clear gel, facilitating Optical microscopy light microscopical analyses of the cell biology cells and tissue biology tissues . Although advertised as being inert , experiments with the moss Physcomitrella patens have shown that choice of the gelling agent agar or Gelrite does influence phytohormone sensitivity of the plant cell culture. ref Birgit Hadeler, Sirkka Scholz, Ralf Reski 1995 Gelrite and agar differently influence cytokinin sensitivity of a moss. Journal of Plant Physiology 146, 369 371 ref Food science As a food additive , gellan gum is used as a thickener , emulsifier , and Food additive Categories stabilizer . It has E number E418. It was an integral part of the now defunct Orbitz drink Orbitz soft drink. It is used in soya milks to keep the soy protein suspended in the milk. ref http www.thefreelibrary.com CP Kelco Introduces KELCOGEL HS B Gellan Gum a0129017038 ref See ... more details
results from online travel agencies, consolidators such as Orbitz , and other sources such as large ..., when the consumer is redirected to the Orbitz website . History The company was formed in January 2004 by co founders of leading online travel agencies, Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia. The company co founders include Steve Hafner CEO a co founder of Orbitz, Paul M. English CTO a former VP ... Blum date 2008 05 20 ref See also Skyscanner Dohop Travelocity Orbitz CheapOair OneTravel Mobissimo ... more details
the acquisition of Worldspan and coordinated the sale of OrbitzOrbitz Worldwide in an initial ... Orbitz s IPO prices at 15 share , Reuters UK . July 19, 2007. Accessed November 19, 2007. ref ref ... News Online . Accessed November 19, 2007. ref Additionally, he is chairman of the board of Orbitz Worldwide. ref http finance.google.com finance?q NYSE OWW Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. , Google Finance . Accessed ... more details
redorbit.com http www.redorbit.com news technology 540647 orbitz asks travelers to take five to help index.html Orbitz Asks Travelers To Take Five retrieved 1 3 2009 ref Revival and renewed interest In the summer of 2006, internet travel agency Orbitz launched a six poster advertising series featuring Klein s original images. The Orbitz campaign, along with a resurgence of interest in 1960 s commercial ... more details
Infobox Newspaper name The Palm Beach Times type newspaper format Online foundation 1998 owners Gary Pearlman and br Michael Borgia headquarters br Tallahassee, Florida Tallahassee , Florida 32303 USA website http www.thepalmbeachtimes.com ThePalmBeachTimes.com The Palm Beach Times is a newspaper daily newspaper in Florida , serving Palm Beach County Palm Beach , in South Florida , and the South Florida area. It s http www.thetravelnavigator.com Travel Navigator competes with Expedia, Orbitz, RoomSaver and other online Hotel search engines. History The paper was founded in 1998 , as the Town Review in Boca Raton Fl. The same year it became a weekly newspaper semi weekly newspaper . In 2001 the name was changed and the paper was incorporated as Palm Beach Times . In 2005 continuing its growth The Palm Beach Times became a part of The Times Media Group Inc. ref cite web title Sunbiz url http sunbiz.org scripts cordet.exe?action DETFIL&inq doc number P05000098931&inq came from NAMFWD&cor web names seq number 0000&names name ind N&names cor number &names name seq &names name ind &names comp name TIMESMEDIAGROUP&names filing type ref The Palm Beach Times today In addition to its coverage of local and national stories, features, sports, editorials, and business, The Palm Beach Times also provides an interactive action line and The Travel Navigator a National and International Hotel, Restaurant, Nightclub, Auto Rental and Event Search Engine The Palm Beach Times is a highly respected source providing a first hand look at the issues and debates that occupy the worlds newspapers and magazines as well as bringing local Palm Beach and Palm Beach County news. The variety provides a closer version of truth that may be obtained by reading a variety of headlines, commentary, and breaking news. Notable Personnel Elizabeth Borgia, Editor The Palm Beach Times is part of Times Media Group, Inc., References reflist External links http www.thepalmbeachtimes.com Official website http www ... more details
Infobox Company company name One Equity Partners company logo Image One Equity Partners logo.png 250px One Equity Partners logo company type Private company Private foundation 2001 parent JPMorgan Chase formerly Bank One founder Dick Cashin, Managing Partner location New York City , New York , United States br Chicago , Illinois , United States industry Private equity products Leveraged buyout , Growth capital assets 8 billion homepage http www.oneequity.com www.oneequity.com num employees 40 One Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle market companies across a range of industries. The firm, which is based in New York City and Chicago , was founded in 2001. The firm also has offices in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park , Hong Kong and Frankfurt . The firm has collected approximately 8 billion of investments and capital commitments, primarily from JPMorgan Chase and previously Bank One and has completed over 4 billion of investments in more than 40 companies since inception. Investments In 2006, One Equity, together with Blackstone Group The Blackstone Group and Technology Crossover Ventures acquired Travelport from Cendant in a 4.3 billion buyout. The company owns Worldspan and Galileo CRS Galileo as well as approximately 48 of Orbitz Orbitz Worldwide . The sale of Travelport followed the spin offs of Cendant s real estate and hospitality businesses, Realogy Corporation and Wyndham Worldwide Wyndham Worldwide Corporation , respectively, in July 2006. ref Sachdev, Ameet. http www.highbeam.com doc 1G1 147699028.html Orbitz travels to 4th owner Blackstone Group to buy from Cendant. , Chicago Tribune , July 1, 2006. Accessed September 15, 2007. ref ref Fineman, Josh. http www.bloomberg.com apps news?pid 20601087&sid a5zd1iiOoP5g&refer home Cendant to sell Orbitz to Blackstone for 4.3 Bln , Bloomberg.com , June 30, 2006. Accessed September 15, 2007. ref Later in the year, TPG and Silver Lake would acqu ... more details
Scott Miller is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the operations consulting firm SSA & Company , LLC. ref http www.ssaandco.com index.php Our Leadership SSA & Company ref He is also currently a Special Advisor of General Atlantic as well as the Director of AXA Financial, Inc. and MONY Life Insurance Co. of America, both of which are subsidiaries of AXA Group. ref name BusinessWeek http investing.businessweek.com businessweek research stocks private person.asp?personId 3254753&privcapId 6529693&previousCapId 271135&previousTitle Fannie 20Mae Business Week ref Early life Miller obtained his Bachelor s degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and his MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago . Past Positions He became the Executive Vice President of Hyatt Hotels Corporation in August 1997 and then served as the company s President and CEO until April 2003. Prior to Hyatt Hotels, Miller served as Partner in the John Buck Company from 1991 to 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he served as the Founding Partner, President, and CEO of United Infrastructure Company. ref name BusinessWeek Miller has also served as a Non Executive Director of Schindler Holding AG since March 2002, a Director of Orbitz , and as an Independent Director of Navteq Corp. from August 2004 to July 10, 2008. ref name BusinessWeek References See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.ssaandco.com Categories Category American chief executives ... more details
buy.com and Orbitz were linked with controversial Web loyalty programs, also known as post transaction .... ref http m.news.com 2166 12 3 10293633 93.html Buy.com, Orbitz linked to controversial marketers vnet ... more details
Nationwide Series most prestigious race, the 2008 Orbitz 300 Camping World 300 presented by Chevrolet ... was run as the Orbitz 300 in 2007. ref cite web url http www.theautochannel.com news 2007 07 09 054505.html ... more details
Infobox Company company name Hotwire.com company logo Image HotwireLogo.png company type Subsidiary key people foundation 2000 location San Francisco San Francisco, CA industry revenue num employees homepage http www.hotwire.com hotwire.com Hotwire is a discount travel website that offers low prices on airfare, hotel, rental car, and vacation packages by selling off unsold travel inventory at discounted prices. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco, CA , Hotwire, Inc. is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. nasdaq EXPE . Expedia also operates Hotels.com , ClassicVacations.com , and Trip advisor TripAdvisor.com . History Hotwire was launched in 2000 by Eric Grosse, Karl Peterson, Gregg Brockway, and Spencer Rascoff and by six major airlines American Airlines American , Northwest Airlines Northwest , Continental Airlines Continental , America West now US Airways , and United Airlines United . They were funded by a leading private equity firm, Texas Pacific Group TPG with an initial 75 million investment. ref cite news url http findarticles.com p articles mi m0ZCK is 36 10 ai 65148336 title Hotwire Launch to Provide Yet Another Way to Offload Cheap Inventory accessdate 2000 09 08 work World Airline News year 2000 ref Prior to its formal launch, it was codenamed Purple Demon. ref cite web url http www.elliott.org inside interactive travel can purple demon avoid orbitz errors title Can Purple Demon avoid Orbitz errors? accessdate 2000 07 05 ref In September 2003, IAC InterActiveCorp announced its acquisition of Hotwire.com for 663 million dollars. Expedia spun off from IAC in 2005. Hotwire s co partners under IAC included Citysearch, Evite , HSN, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, RealEstate.com, Entertainment.com, and Match.com. ref cite web url http www.news.com InterActiveCorp grabs onto Hotwire 2100 1038 3 5079841.html title InterActiveCorp grabs onto Hotwire work News.com accessdate 2003 09 22 ref In 2007, J.D. Power and Associates Independent Travel Web Site Satisf ... more details
for the similarly named skyscraper in New York City Citigroup Center Refimprove date September 2007 Infobox skyscraper building name Citigroup Center image Image CitigroupCenterChicago.jpg 240px Citigroup Center location 500 West Madison, Chicago , Illinois constructed 1984 1987 use Commercial antenna spire top floor roof 180 meters floor count 42 floor area elevator count architect Helmut Jahn Murphy Jahn coordinates coord 41.882005 87.64049 type landmark region US IL format dms display inline,title Citigroup Center is a 42 story, 588 foot 180 m skyscraper in Chicago , Illinois . Located at 500 W. Madison between Clinton and Canal Streets , the structure was designed by the architecture firm Helmut Jahn Murphy Jahn in a late Modern architecture modernist style. The building, previously named the Northwestern Atrium Center , was constructed between 1984 and 1987 on the air rights obtained by the destruction of the headhouse of the 1911 http chicago.urban history.org sites transpor cnw sta.htm North Western Station . Citigroup Center contains retail shopping and offices, and is connected to the platforms of the Ogilvie Transportation Center which unofficially continues to be called Northwestern Station and thousands of Metra commuters use the facility every day. Orbitz Worldwide NYSE OWW maintains its worldwide headquarters on three floors of the Citigroup Center. Shooting Image CitigroupCenterChicagoShooting.jpg thumb left People are evacuated from the Citigroup Center On 8 December 2006 a man opened fire in a law office located on the 38th floor of the Citigroup Center. Four people, including the gunman, were killed. One person survived. ref http www.nbc5.com news 10497342 detail.html Gunman Thought Invention Would Transform His Life News Story WMAQ Chicago Bot generated title ref See also List of buildings List of skyscrapers List of tallest buildings in Chicago List of tallest buildings in the United States World s tallest structures References references Chicago ... more details
The Airline Tariff Publishing Company , ATPCO , or ATP , is a corporation that publishes the latest airfare s for more than 500 airlines multiple times per day. Based at Washington Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. , ATPCO is owned by a number of US and international airline s. ATPCO provides fare data in an electronic format with the encoded rules associated with those fares, which make the information suitable for computer processing. The only competitor to ATPCO is SITA , who distributes some fares in Asia , Africa and Europe . The users of the data are Global Distribution System s GDS , such as Sabre computer system Sabre , Amadeus IT Group Amadeus , Travelport , and their associated travel agent s the Computer Reservation System s CRS of airlines online travel agencies such as Expedia , Orbitz , and Travelocity and other service providers in the travel industry. Because the data is formatted for computer processing, the latest fares can be loaded automatically, allowing these new fares to be sold in the market place in the shortest possible time. Fares are distributed hourly each day except for a few hours on Saturday and Sunday for international markets, and three times a weekday and once Saturday and Sunday in US CA markets. Airlines carefully monitor new public fares filed by their competition for publication through ATPCO. Once the fares have been distributed by ATPCO, airlines detect the action of other airlines increasing or decreasing their fares for specific connections, and then use this information to set their own pricing strategy. For instance, if they see a competitor introducing special promotional pricing between two cities, they may want to quickly react by filing their own special fares through ATPCO for that market. http www.fastcompany.com online 68 pricing.html History The Air Traffic Conference of America, a body within the Air Transport Association of America ATA , was founded in 1945 to publish passenger tariffs far ... more details
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