10 Facts About Orbitz

Orbitz Worldwide owns and operates Orbitz for Business, a corporate travel company.

Orbitz was the airline industry's response to the rise of online travel agencies such as Expedia and Travelocity, as well as a solution to lower airline distribution costs.

The United States Department of Justice ruled in 2003 that Orbitz was not a cartel and that there was no evidence of price fixing.

In November 2003, Orbitz filed paperwork to sell shares at between $22 and $24 each in an initial public offering.

Orbitz runs on a mixed Red Hat Linux and Solaris based platform and was an early adopter of Sun Microsystems' Jini platform in a clustered Java environment.

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Orbitz has released parts of its Complex event processing infrastructure as Open Source.

Southwest, which had opposed the project from the outset, claimed Orbitz misrepresented its prices and used its trademarks without permission.

The court in Milgram v Orbitz granted summary judgment for Orbitz, finding that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act preempted the state law consumer fraud claims.

In December 2010, American Airlines temporarily ceased offering fares through Orbitz following pressure from American to convince Orbitz to use its AA Direct Connect electronic transaction system.

In 2014, Orbitz and United Airlines initiated a federal lawsuit against 22-year-old Skiplagged founder Aktarer Zaman.