Expedia: Hotels, Flights & Car

Top ranked in Free Android App Download chart, Expedia: Hotels, Flights & Car is a free app that provides outstanding user experience and services. It’s ranked NO.2 under the Travel & Local category. Developed by Expedia, the app has 306.45K ratings and a score of 4.5. It was first released on 2011-05-10.

Expedia: Hotels, Flights & Car contains ads and has no in-app purchase. To run this application smoothly, the operating system of your device needs to be iOS or Android 8.0 and up. Please be noticed that due to performance differences, the user experience may vary on different devices.

Expedia is an online travel company that offers services to individuals and small businesses based in America. Its websites, which are mainly travel metasearch engine, and travel fare aggregators include Hotels.com, trivago, Travelocity, Orbitz, Vrbo (formerly known as HomeAway), Hotwire.com, CarRentals.com, and Hotel.com. The first CEO of the company is Rich Barton. According to him, the word "Expedia" is gotten from a mixture of "speed “and "exploration".

The company was established as part of the Microsoft company in October 1996. In 1999, Expedia was upgraded into a public company. In 2001, IAC (InterActiveCorp) bought a large interest in the company for approximately 1.3 billion dollars. It was fully bought by IAC in 2003 and became a member of the IAC travel. In 2015, the company purchased Orbitz for 1.6 billion dollars and relocated its headquarters to Seattle.

According to research, the total income reduced from 12 billion dollars in 2019 to 5.2 billion dollars in 2020 because of the COVID 19 pandemic. The Travel Market reports that over 14,604 complaint were received by the United States department of transportation from customers who got their flights cancelled on Expedia and other travelling companies.

Features

Scratchpad

This feature keeps and arranges a customer's search queries, so it can be easily retained anytime. The company noticed that most customers search for a flight online 48 times before booking. With Scratchpad, your search history is always retained. So, you can leave the company's site, and still have access to everything you searched for. When you click on scratchpad on the site, the search history expands and data refreshes.

Itinerary Sharing

This feature allows you to share a written schedule for your travels with your friend, families, or co-workers. Your friends will be able to access the same notifications and the traveler. This is makes tracking arrivals, departures, and delays easier.

Flight recommendations

Most people spend a lot of time looking for the best deals. For anything you are looking for, there are numerous ways you can search for that trip. However, with flight recommendations, you can use the flight booking data to find the right flight for you at the cheapest price available.

Scratchpad and flight recommendations are powered by existing innovations in the company, such as "Travel Graph." This innovation is used to analyze the wide range of booking data and create a more intelligent search results for consumers.

Reviews

• Frequent sales
• Bundle discounts
• Last-minute travel deals
• Bundling: this is a feature that allows you save more when booking more than one product in one transaction. According Expedia, United States traveler save up to 10 percent by bundling their flight and hotel.
• You can pay in installments through Affirm, a service that provides short term loans for online purchases.
• Great discounts
• Available on androids
• Booking direct is cheaper than Expedia
• Outside travel insurance is simpler and cheaper
• Most cancellation policies are bad and confusing
• Expedia does not offer lucrative loyalty programs