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CheapTickets
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CheapTickets is an online travel services company focusing on the leisure market. It sells airline tickets, hotel and condo rentals, rental cars, customized vacation packages, and cruises.
CheapTickets was founded in 1986 in Honolulu, Hawaii by Michael and Sandra Hartley when inter-island carrier Mid Pacific Air gave 3,000 tickets to Hartley's employer at the time, advertising firm Regency Media, as payment for its services at the time Regency closed its Honolulu branch. The tickets were advertised via newspaper classified ads and sold out in two weeks. The company grew into an airline ticket consolidator, acquiring seats from airlines at rates low enough to allow the company to resell them at fares lower than the airline's normal published airfares.[1]
It opened its first call center in Honolulu in 1987, and would later open call centers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Lakeport, California, Los Angeles, California, and Tampa, Florida.[2] It launched its web site in 1997, becoming a pioneer in Internet travel sales.[3] The company operated brick and mortar agency locations in Hawaii, California, New York, and Washington which were closed by the end of 2001, by which time they accounted for just 2% of the company's business.[1][4]
The company was acquired in 2000 by Cendant and is currently part of the Travel Distribution Services Division of Travelport, which was sold to the Blackstone Group in July 2006.
- About CheapTickets. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
- ^ a b Torres-Kitamura, Maria. "Up, up and away." (Reprint), Hawaii Business, September 1996. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
- ^ Staff writer. "Business Briefs", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 2001-06-05. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
- ^ Lynch, Russ. "Cheap Tickets bought out", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 2001-08-13. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
- ^ Lynch, Russ. "Cheap Tickets’ profits plunge 76 percent", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 2001-08-02. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
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