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The Auction for Travelport (A)
Hagiu, Andrei; Sanwal, Misha R.Case HBS-710474-EStrategyA senior Blackstone director is deciding how aggressively to bid for Travelport, a travel distribution business containing several key services and platforms. Travelport's most important properties were Galileo, one of the top 3 global distribution systems (GDSs), CheapTickets and Orbitz, two online travel agencies. Blackstone was competing in an auction against several other large private equity firms with multi billion dollar investment funds...Starting at €8.20
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The Auction for Travelport (B)
Hagiu, Andrei; Sanwal, Misha R.Case HBS-710475-EStrategyThis short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially spun off in an IPO its online travel businesses, re-named Orbitz Worldwide; it retained the GDS and wholesale travel businesses. By the end of that year (2006), Blackstone had gener...Starting at €5.74