Ebookers.com is a leading online travel agency based in the UK, and is the European brand of Orbitz Worldwide . He is a former wholly owned subsidiary of Travelport , himself a former travel arm of Cendant which was bought in October 2006 by an affiliate of Blackstone Partners. Travelport is divided into three companies. Part of the activity related to the B2C arm is called Orbitz Worldwide and was introduced in the Nasdaq in July 2007 .
Ebookers is a pan-European travel website specializing in the middle of the arena and long distance travel , offering a wide and varied selection of travel products including hotel reservations , flights, car hire and sports packages . He previously major travel agencies operating in the streets in Ireland to close its branch in Dublin in 2006 and go online only. [1]
At the time of the initial acquisition of Cendant ( 28 February 2005) , Ebookers was estimated at $ 350 million.
Ebookers was formed in 1999 by Dinesh Dhamija , but its origins go back nearly 20 years. In 1983 Flightbookers Ltd. was founded , a travel agency in London with its main branches retailers Tottenham Court Road in London. Its most profitable output is based on Gatwick Airport in the lobby of London's Heathrow rail until the operation was opened in 2004. It has been reported [ by whom? ] What the new high performance branch Heathrow give the benefit of one month, in one day thanks to the BA strike of 2004 under the direction of the branch manager Peter Hensley. Flightbookers became one of the largest travel agencies in the UK in 1996 and has created a web page, the first interactive travel website in the UK. It was so successful that in 1999 , the arms of the Internet was separated to form Ebookers and the new public company is taken with an introduction on the Nasdaq in New York and the Neuer Markt in Germany. $ 61 million raised in the IPO has been used to deploy Ebookers Europe. In November 2000 , Ebookers Flightbookers purchased for $ 15 million , bringing the two companies.
Ebookers had an overhaul of the platform and a relaunch of the brand to the UK market in July 2007 .
Ebookers has launched a new travel section in the UK, where airlines related news, the airports and the most popular destinations is updated daily .