Expedia(R) Corporate Travel Features Multiple Airport Searching Within a Single Flight Search

Expedia(R) Corporate Travel Features Multiple Airport Searching Within a Single Flight Search

Alternative Airport Options Save Expedia(R) Corporate Travel Customers Time and Money

BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In an effort to help its customers save time and money, Expedia(R) Corporate Travel has unveiled new unique technology that allows, within a single flight search, business travelers to search multiple airports, beyond just airports that are naturally in the same metropolitan area. Business travelers can view a list of additional alternative airports and can easily select up to four options, per leg, that they wish to consider in their search results.

Alternative airport searching gives flexibility to business travelers who want to be presented with a larger set of relevant traveling options available to them. It also allows business travelers to make informed trade-off decisions between travel time and cost-savings for their company.

To search alternative airports on the Expedia(R) Corporate Travel site, a customer's individual business traveler can select the "Also Search Nearby Airports" check box. The traveler is then presented with the distance from the airport originally selected, as well as a full comparison pricing grid of search results.

In addition to being available for corporate customers, alternative airport searching is also available to Expedia(R) Business Advantage customers, at www.expediabusinessadvantage.com.

"Expedia Corporate Travel continues to focus on simplifying our solutions for business travelers and delivering new technology-advanced and easy-to-use features that ultimately result in time and cost-savings," said Simon Tam, vice president of product development at Expedia Corporate Travel. "Business travelers who consider alternative airports can uncover significant hidden savings; sometimes even hundreds of dollars for their companies."

The Relizon Company, a North American leader in document management and customer communication solutions based in Dayton, Ohio, is one Expedia(R) Corporate Travel customer that uses intelligent and easy-to-use alternative airport searching.

"There are multiple airports in other major cities within relatively close driving distance from Dayton, including Cincinnati and Columbus," said Amee Sherman of Relizon. "Being able to see the flights departing from and arriving to these multiple airports in one online search gives our travelers the simple ability to see which flight scenario renders the most savings and convenience for their trip."

The individual business travelers are not the only ones who benefit from Expedia(R) Corporate Travel's new alternative airport features. Travel managers can set specific policies and require business travelers to review alternative airport options in key markets. They can apply alternative airport policy controls with varying levels of policy enforcement by specifying default alternative airports to be displayed in individual traveler's searches. In addition, the alternative airport reports generated by Expedia(R) Corporate Travel, give travel managers the data they need to easily measure and quantify the cost-savings value.

For more information on Expedia(R) Corporate Travel, please visit http://corporate.expedia.com/ or call 866-328-0110.

About Expedia(R) Corporate Travel

Expedia(R) Corporate Travel is a full-service travel management company operated by Expedia, Inc., the world's leading online travel service and the fourth largest travel agency in the U.S. Expedia(R) Corporate Travel brings together the best of technology and corporate support in a single-source solution that drives down costs. Business travelers have access to specialized tools, while companies can take advantage of rich management and reporting features. Expedia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IACI). CST: 2029030-40

NOTE: Expedia and the airplane logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Expedia, Inc. in the U.S., Canada and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.


Source: Expedia Corporate Travel

CONTACT: press only, Jeremy Adams of Edelman, +1-312-233-1226, or
jeremy.adams@edelman.com, for Expedia

Web site: http://corporate.expedia.com/

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