Eleven Asia-Pacific airlines to set up Internet service portal

The airlines, including CAL, Singapore Airlines, Quantas and Air New Zealand, - have signed a contract with the world's largest travel portal Travelocity. The Asia-Pacific travel port, whose name is yet to be decided, is to be opened in mid-2001. Travelocity, based in the U.S. state of Texas, is the world's largest Internet travel company. Its portal sells tickets for 95 per cent of U.S. airlines, books rooms for 49,000 hotels and arranges car rentals for 50 car rental companies. With 24 million members, Travelocity has sold more than one million plane tickets, CAL said in a statement.

(la/dpa)