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United, Delta, Northwest And Continental Announce Plans To Launch Industry-Leading Travel Web Site

Hotel Booking United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines today announced their partnership in a new independently owned travel Web site. The new site, the first multi-airline travel portal, will provide customers with convenient online access to airline, hotel, car rental and other travel services in addition to Internet offers.

Groople, the leading online group travel planning and booking site, announces the launch of an exciting travel and social networking tool, offering an integrated solution for the challenges of planning and booking group travel. GroopVine will allow users to create their own personalized trip page to plan, create, share, shop and buy travel with their entire group's input every step of the way. Providing helpful tools from event schedules and suggested itineraries to RSS feeds and online surveys, GroopVine makes group travel planning fun, collaborative and easy.

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Groople (www.groople.com), the leader in group travel planning, has partnered with Go10000, a travel focused development and hosting firm, to bring to market a new group collaboration site for the travel space. GroopVine will provide the solution to the complex communication and booking problems group travel planning can create. Enhancing the online travel space by combining the key elements of social networking such as invitations, forums, messaging, photos and video posting, with the best in online travel booking, GroopVine is the only place for group travelers to shop, plan and book together online.

Cheap Hotel The new site will provide access to the carriers' online products, and the airlines believe it will offer the most comprehensive selection of online airfares and other travel information available anywhere on the World Wide Web. The site will feature published fares from virtually all carriers worldwide and will welcome the posting of Internet fares from other carriers as well. "For the first time, online travel consumers will be able to compare and purchase the Internet fares offered by several airlines and travel providers by visiting just one site," said Bruce Parker, United's Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of the company's Information Services Division.

Groople In the News Travelocity Teams with Groople to Offer Group Hotel Bookings New shopping tools added to Travelocity's hotel booking engine let travelers book 5+ rooms in a single reservation SOUTHLAKE, Texas and DENVER (February 1, 2005) Planning this summer's faraway family reunion Or maybe you're a coach needing a bunch of rooms for that upcoming youth tournament If so, you'll want to check out new functionality on Travelocity that makes planning and booking group travel a snap. Today, Travelocity announced an agreement with Groople Inc., a leading provider of online group travel bookings that gives Travelocity customers a specialized groups section with discounted hotel rates, group content and new planning features that are unavailable on other travel sites.

Flight Booking The four airlines will continue to independently operate and develop their respective Web sites, in addition to their participation in the joint venture.

"Groople and Avis Budget Group continue to lead innovation in the industry with the launch of our group rental car product. The rapid growth in booking travel online and the size of the group travel segment is driving demand for group based travel tools, " said Mike Stacy, chief executive officer of Groople. "We have demonstrated our leadership in group hotels, breaking tool for cars, which will make their travel planning and booking much easier."

Travel Agent Using innovative search capabilities, customers will be able to use the site to find comprehensive travel information on many of the world's most popular travel products. Price-conscious customers for example, will be able to use a special price search feature to locate products suiting their budget needs; customers concerned with convenience will use a special flight schedule search engine. "By combining the vast amount of Internet experience of all the launch partners, we will create a site that is superior to all travel sites," said Vince Caminiti, Senior Vice President of Sales and Distribution at Delta Air Lines. "The new site will offer the most convenient features of any online travel vehicle."

Groople In the News Groople Selected by Bizbash as Provider for Group Travel Bookings June 1, BiZBash, the preeminent resource for the event planning industry, today announces a partnership with Groople.com, making Groople the exclusive online group travel partner for BiZBash's thousands of event professionals. BiZBash users now have Groople's group travel tools, with the unique ability to research and make group travel arrangements online. While most travel booking sites don't allow for group reservations at all, through BiZBash, hotel bookings for 5 rooms or hundreds of rooms are now simple to book and include special group rates. With an initial offering of hotels, the service will expand to offer airfare, cruise, car and rail bookings online. free number ( 4316) is available for arranging air, cruise, car and rail, as well as more complicated hotel requests.

Hotel Chicago In addition to booking travel on airlines, the new site will also partner with hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines and other travel partners to help consumers build an entire travel experience at just one site. "Customers will be offered unique travel packages through the combined product offerings of our partners," said Bill Brunger, Vice President of Distribution Planning and Revenue Decision Support at Continental Airlines.

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Travel Health Insurance "Our site will offer customers the best of everything," said Al Lenza, Vice President of Distribution Planning at Northwest Airlines. "The best collection of Internet fares in one location, the best search capabilities and the best travel-related content."

Hotel Reservation The site, expected to launch in the first half of 2000, will be managed independently of the suppliers. A management team and identity for the site will be named at a later date. The transaction is subject to the completion of definitive agreements and the receipt of all necessary approvals.

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