Asiana Airlines Enters Into Multi-Year Partnership with Orbitz
Worldwide to Power Air, Hotel, Car and Dynamic Package Bookings
CHICAGO, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbitz
Worldwide Distribution, a leading provider of private label travel
technology, has launched a new partnership with Asiana Airlines to
power air, hotel, car and dynamic package search and booking
capabilities on the company's U.S. website,
http://us.flyasiana.com. Serving over 14 million passengers
annually on 285 daily flights, Asiana Airlines is a leading
provider of travel to 68 cities in 22 countries around the globe as
well as 12 destinations within Korea. The multi-year
agreement enables Asiana Airlines customers to leverage Orbitz
Worldwide proprietary technology for booking a full range of travel
products.
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"Asiana Airlines wanted a partner to provide a platform for our
U.S. customers to book air tickets as well as the ability to
purchase other travel products such as hotels and vacation
packages. The clean and flexible user interface on the Orbitz
private label site, paired with their excellent customer service
capabilities, made it a great solution for us," said Young Heon Kim, vice president of the Americas
at Asiana Airlines. "The Orbitz Worldwide private label
solution allows Asiana Airlines customers to book all aspects of
their travel in the most convenient way possible – without ever
leaving our website."
The newly launched Asiana Airlines site features a seamless user
interface that retains the airline's unique branding and gives
customers the ability to book flights or package any combination of
air, hotel and car bookings. Through this strategic
partnership, Orbitz and Asiana Airlines are able to provide
customers with access to a worldwide inventory of hotels as well as
deep savings through vacation packages, while simultaneously
increasing distribution and exposure for Asiana Airlines in the
U.S.
"While many of our OTA competitors do not provide or are moving
away from offering dynamic packaging solutions to partners, Orbitz
has invested significantly in its private label packaging
technology and will continue to do so – with the ultimate goal of
providing the leading solution for dynamic packaging," said
Ronnie Gurion, president of Orbitz
Worldwide Distribution. "We've made major enhancements to the
available features and to our user interface, leading to the
addition of exciting new partners like Asiana Airlines as they are
now up and running with our technology."
Orbitz powers travel solutions for a variety of partners,
including many of the world's leading airlines and thousands of
partners globally. Orbitz Worldwide Distribution offers a
range of private label solutions for partners of all sizes,
including hosted HTML services that can be launched in a matter of
days with no upfront costs, XML solutions that allow full control
of the user interface, and end-to-end custom developed XML and HTML
solutions that are fully tailored to meet the unique requirements
of more complex partners. For more information about Orbitz
Worldwide Distribution send an email to
privatelabel@orbitz.com.
About Asiana Airlines
Asiana Airlines (OZ) is a
leading global Seoul,
Korea-based airline that serves many of the world's major
cities—operating over 87 routes to 68 cities in 22
countries. The airline focuses on both business and leisure
markets and drives efficiency and effectiveness while providing a
first-class experience for all customers on board.
As the official 5-star rated Skytrax airline,
the distinguished winner of "Airline of the Year" for three
consecutive years and the achiever of the most prestigious golden
grand slam in air travel, Asiana Airlines has
been awarded for the efforts on customer satisfaction through
best safety and service. Asiana values their corporate
philosophy on taking customers to their destinations on time
in the fastest, safest, and the most comfortable manner possible.
Asiana Airlines is also a member of the Star Alliance
network. On July 2012, Asiana
launched a new type of First Class service, the OZ First Suite,
which is limited to routes: Incheon - Chicago, Incheon - Narita, and Incheon - Ho Chi Minh. Based on the concept of a hotel
suite in the sky, the air suite features
unique slide-open doors, the first of its kind in Korea,
installed at the seat entrance. Besides stricter privacy, each
suite guarantees fresh air from an individual air ventilation
system, fully reclined seat/full-bed, individual cabinet for
papers and laptops, personal mini-bars, touch sensitive LCD seat
function control units, and a personal 32-inch HD screen for
enhanced in-flight entertainment. To ensure enjoyable and
comfortable travel, Asiana Airlines aims to become the world's best
carrier by constantly evolving in better quality,
innovation, safety, and reliability. For more
information on Asiana Airlines' products, you can visit the
company's website: http://us.flyasiana.com
About Orbitz Worldwide
Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) is
a leading global online travel company that uses innovative
technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research,
plan and book a broad range of travel products. Orbitz
Worldwide owns a portfolio of consumer brands that includes Orbitz,
CheapTickets, ebookers, HotelClub, RatesToGo, and the Away
Network. Also within the Orbitz Worldwide family, Orbitz
Worldwide Distribution delivers private label travel solutions to a
broad range of partners including many of the world's largest
airlines, and Orbitz for Business delivers managed corporate travel
solutions for corporations. Orbitz Worldwide uses its
Investor Relations website to make information available to its
investors and the public at http://investors.orbitz.com. You
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