Orbitz Expects To Turn A Profit

from the strong-businesses-really-can-survive dept

While it's not standard to report on earnings here on Techdirt, I thought this was interesting. Orbitz, the new online travel site, is predicting profitability by the middle of next year. This goes to show that if you build a good site, based on a good business, you can survive. It has amazed me how fast Orbitz has caught on among the average consumer. I constantly hear from people I wouldn't expect that they are using Orbitz exclusively because of the low fares they can find there but nowhere else.
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  1. identicon
    Mike Clouser, 15 Nov 2001 @ 11:39am

    Hospitality and Online Travel

    online travel, as i always said, will be big winner on the internet. there are many more good applications coming down the pipeline too.

    Mike Clouser
    Founder
    Hospitality Entrepeneurship and Tourism Technology Association
    Palo Alto, CA
    http://www.workit.org/events/event_pop.cfm?event_id=3358
    mclouser@ureach.com

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