The Daily Interview: Online Travel Skies Getting Crowded

It's starting to look like the online travel site business is getting overbooked.

Thomas Underwood Analyst, Legg Mason

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Last week, the much-anticipated launch of airline-owned travel Web site Orbitz debuted, and was promptly bogged down by technical glitches and delays. Orbitz is owned by AMR's(AMR Quote) American Airlines, UAL's(UAL Quote) United Airlines, Delta Air Lines(DAL Quote), Northwest Airlines(NWAC Quote) and Continental Airlines(CAL Quote). The Web site is part of the airlines' effort to increase the distribution of their inventory of seats on the Internet and compete head to head with Sabre Holdings' Travelocity.com(TVLY Quote) and Microsoft's Expedia(EXPE Quote) ...