American Airlines To Expand Partnership in New Online Travel Agency; American Will Become One of Web Site's Equity Owners.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2000 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the will expand its previously announced participation in a new travel web site by joining the four founding partners -- United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines -- as an equity owner. American's ownership role in the web site -- scheduled to launch this summer -- was announced by Ben Burnett, a Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. based vice president at The Boston Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. Consulting Group, which is managing the development of the site until a permanent management team is identified and in place. Specific details of the agreement were not disclosed. American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of was already among a number of airlines that previously signed letters of intent to participate in the web site on a non-equity basis. "Customers increasingly want to use the web, and they want to see all the options in one place, no matter which airline is involved," said Mike Gunn Gunn may mean: In general:
n. Abbr. VP 1. An officer ranking next below a president, usually empowered to assume the president's duties under conditions such as absence, illness, or death. 2. - Marketing and Planning. "We need to provide those customers what they want, and we believe doing so will prove to be a good e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. investment for American." The travel portal will offer consumers all schedule and fare options, including the lowest fares, from all publicly available information without bias, without regard to which airline offers the service, and without regard to whether an airline is an owner of the site, a non-equity participant or neither. Among its features, the site will include a state-of-the-art user interface making it easier for consumers to search and book travel online. Alex (language) Alex - 1. A polymorphic language being developed by Stephen Crawley <sxc@itd.dtso.oz.au> of Defence Science & Tech Org, Australia. Alex has abstract data types, type inference and inheritance. 2. n. Fare for travel by aircraft. Noun 1. airfare - the fare charged for traveling by airplane fare, transportation - the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance search engine. Zoghlin added, "We believe this will be the most powerful fare and searching technology on the web today. It will be able to search through billions of fare and schedule options per second, ensuring that consumers will find the Internet's widest range of schedule and fare choices and that consumers will see the information displayed in an absolutely unbiased way." Besides air travel, the site will offer one-stop travel shopping with a complete selection of products and services from hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines
Name Headquarters A'rosa Europe NCL America America AIDA Cruises Europe American Cruise Lines America , vacation packagers and other travel suppliers worldwide. The new online travel agency said that it will operate as an independent company with separate management, and its equity owners and charter associates will continue operating their respective web sites and participate in other online and traditional distribution channels. Gunn added, "American not only wants its schedules and fares available to users of this web site, but to users of every other distribution channel for air transportation, including traditional travel agents, our own web site, and other online travel agencies. We will continue to promote our product in all channels." American Airlines is the largest U.S. domestic airline and the world's second largest carrier. Along with its regional airline affiliate, American Eagle, it provides service to nearly 50 countries and over 240 cities worldwide. Last year American flew almost 85 million passengers. American operates a modern jet fleet of approximately 700 aircraft. The airline has more than 100,000 employees. American Eagle, American's regional airline affiliate, last year flew more than 14 million passengers with a fleet of 271 regional aircraft. On an average day American operates more than 2,400 flights. American Eagle operates more than 1,700 daily departures. |
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