CheapTickets

CheapTickets is an online travel services company focusing on the leisure market, offering airline tickets, hotel and vacation rentals, rental cars, customized vacation packages, and cruises.

CheapTickets was founded in 1986 in Honolulu, Hawaii, by Michael and Sandra Hartley when inter-island carrier Mid Pacific Air gave 3,000 tickets to Hartley's employer at the time, advertising firm Regency Media, as payment for its services at the time Regency closed its Honolulu branch.

[1] It opened its first call center in Honolulu in 1987, and would later open call centers in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Lakeport, California; Los Angeles, California; and Tampa, Florida.

In July 2006, it was included, with the sale of Travelport to the Blackstone Group, as part of their Travel Distribution Services Division that later became Orbitz Worldwide, Inc.[5][6] In 2009, Orbitz was sued by the state of New Jersey for alleged violations of the state's Consumer Fraud Act relating to tickets offered for sale on CheapTickets Exchange for a Bruce Springsteen concert prior to the first public sale date.

The company successfully claimed immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and Milgram v. Orbitz was dismissed.