The newly launched Asiana Airlines site features a seamless user interface that retains the airline's unique branding and gives customers the ability to book flights or package any combination of air, hotel and car bookings.
CHICAGO – Orbitz Worldwide Distribution has launched a new partnership with Asiana Airlines to power air, hotel, car and dynamic package search and booking capabilities on the company’s U.S. website. Serving over 14 million passengers annually on 285 daily flights, Asiana Airlines is a leading provider of travel to 68 cities in 22 countries around the globe as well as 12 destinations within Korea. The multi-year agreement enables Asiana Airlines customers to leverage Orbitz Worldwide proprietary technology for booking a full range of travel products.
“Asiana Airlines wanted a partner to provide a platform for our U.S. customers to book air tickets as well as the ability to purchase other travel products such as hotels and vacation packages. The clean and flexible user interface on the Orbitz private label site, paired with their excellent customer service capabilities, made it a great solution for us,” said Young Heon Kim, vice president of the Americas at Asiana Airlines.
“The Orbitz Worldwide private label solution allows Asiana Airlines customers to book all aspects of their travel in the most convenient way possible – without ever leaving our website.”
The newly launched Asiana Airlines site features a seamless user interface that retains the airline’s unique branding and gives customers the ability to book flights or package any combination of air, hotel and car bookings. Through this strategic partnership, Orbitz and Asiana Airlines are able to provide customers with access to a worldwide inventory of hotels as well as deep savings through vacation packages, while simultaneously increasing distribution and exposure for Asiana Airlines in the U.S.
“While many of our OTA competitors do not provide or are moving away from offering dynamic packaging solutions to partners, Orbitz has invested significantly in its private label packaging technology and will continue to do so – with the ultimate goal of providing the leading solution for dynamic packaging,” said Ronnie Gurion, president of Orbitz Worldwide Distribution. “We’ve made major enhancements to the available features and to our user interface, leading to the addition of exciting new partners like Asiana Airlines as they are now up and running with our technology.”
Orbitz powers travel solutions for a variety of partners, including many of the world’s leading airlines and thousands of partners globally. Orbitz Worldwide Distribution offers a range of private label solutions for partners of all sizes, including hosted HTML services that can be launched in a matter of days with no upfront costs, XML solutions that allow full control of the user interface, and end-to-end custom developed XML and HTML solutions that are fully tailored to meet the unique requirements of more complex partners.
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