What advantages do you have in business travel over Orbitz and Travelocity?
We have, I believe, the most complete service and the best customer service for leisure travelers. We can easily translate that to business travel. More important, we have already been around the block in [building the technology] for the corporate travel space. Most people don’t know this, but four and a half years ago we built American Express’ corporate-travel product — software that’s used for booking, managing expense reports, and other aspects of corporate travel. Q: How will Expedia fend off the pending offer from USA Interactive, particularly when it holds such a high percentage of the voting interest? A: It’s not a unique situation. It’s fairly straightforward. And it’s not something that’s distracting us. We have a group of board members who are independent directors who formed a special committee when USA Interactive made its [stock] trade offer six weeks ago. That committee’s sole responsibility is to evaluate any proposal that comes out of USA Interactive. Q: Is there any
