Expedia, Inc. And American Airlines Group Expand Partnership Bringing More Choices To Travelers

BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) announced today renewal of its agreement with American Airlines Group (NASDAQ: AAL) for distribution of American Airlines and US Airways flights on Expedia, Travelocity and Hotwire sites. In addition, the Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) and AA Vacations announced entry into a partnership for EAN to supply hotel content via www.aa.com.

The agreement also adds provisions for Expedia®, Travelocity® and Hotwire® sites to offer paid seating options to millions of leisure customers shopping and booking travel through select sites within the Expedia, Inc. brand portfolio beginning in late 2015. These new options will include Main Cabin Extra seats that provide fliers up to six inches of additional leg room and priority boarding as well as Preferred Seats with standard legroom in a more favorable cabin location. Expedia, Inc. customers will be able to easily identify, select and purchase these paid seating options via the online seat map.

Commenting on the agreement, Greg Schulze, senior vice president of Global Tour & Transport at Expedia, Inc. said, "We are thrilled that our expanded agreement with American Airlines Group enables us to offer a broader set of options so our travelers can find the perfect trip and seat across any of the nearly 350 destinations served by American Airlines."

About Expedia, Inc.
Expedia, Inc. is one of the world's leading travel companies, with an extensive brand portfolio that includes leading online travel brands, such as: 

• Expedia.com®, a leading full service online travel agency with localized sites in 31 countries
• Hotels.com®, the hotel specialist with localized sites in more than 60 countries
• Hotwire®, a leading discount travel site that offers Hot Rate® Hotels, Hot Rate® Cars and Hot Rate® Airfares, as well as vacation packages
• Travelocity®, a pioneer in online travel and a leading online travel agency in the US and Canada
• Egencia®, a leading corporate travel management company
• Venere.com™, an online hotel reservation specialist in Europe
• trivago®, a leading online hotel metasearch company with sites in 52 countries
• Wotif Group, a leading portfolio of travel brands operating in the Australia/New Zealand region, including Wotif.com®, lastminute.com.au®, lastminute.com.nz® and travel.com.au®
• Expedia Local Expert®, a provider of online and in-market concierge services, activities, experiences and ground transportation in hundreds of destinations worldwide
• Classic Vacations®, a top luxury travel specialist
• Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, a provider of exceptional value and expert advice for travelers booking cruises and vacations through its network of 190 retail franchise locations across North America
• CarRentals.com™, the premier car rental booking company on the web

The company delivers consumers value in leisure and business travel, drives incremental demand and direct bookings to travel suppliers and provides advertisers the opportunity to reach a highly valuable audience of in-market consumers through Expedia® Media Solutions. Expedia also powers bookings for thousands of affiliates, including some of the world's leading airlines, top consumer brands and high traffic websites through Expedia® Affiliate Network. For corporate and industry news and views, visit us at www.expediainc.com or follow us on Twitter @expediainc.

About Expedia Global Tour & Transport
The Expedia group Global Tour & Transport team supports global, integrated strategies for air, car, package, rail, cruise and insurance products for Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif Group, Hotwire and Expedia CruiseShipCenters. In addition, the team manages Expedia's relationships with 400+ airlines and connectivity partners, and dozens of car rental companies and cruise lines helping them efficiently reach the 60+ million consumers shopping within Expedia's trusted travel brand portfolio.

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