Opodo

Opodo is an online travel service that was founded in 2001 by nine European airlines ( Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, KLM and Lufthansa). Between March 2003 and February 2011, the travel distribution system Amadeus has been involved in Opodo and held from June 2005 to 75.4 percent controlling interest. In February 2011, Opodo changed for 450 million euros to the owner, the new main shareholder is the AXA Private Equity and Permira Funds. Opodo is represented in fourteen European countries. In May 2011, the European Commission approved the acquisition of Opodo by AXA Private Equity and Permira, which with the French tour operator Go Voyages and the Spanish tour operator eDreams together with Opodo the largest travel management company in Europe called eDreams ODIGEO with projected annual sales of around 2 should arise EUR 5 billion.

In 2005 Opodo achieved a turnover of 202 million euros on the German travel market.

Still belongs to ODIGEO eDreams Group Travel Link ( a Nordic online travel agency ).

2012 sold Opodo travel organizer Tropo to the ProSiebenSat.1 subsidiary SevenVentures.

Opodo is a founding member of the Association of Internet travel sales ( VIR ) and certified since February 2006 TUV label Safe shopping.

In 2014 Opodo.de was criticized that the portal take about 17 euro as hidden costs and thus violates requires that full cost transparency of EU law.

Trivia

The word Opodo, as an abbreviation for Opportunity tO DO, constitutes an issue, as www.opodo.de in the web address, an ambigram, ie turned upside down the word looks the same.