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July 24, 2008 -- Home&Abroad Takes to the Skies with AirTran Airways

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07/22/2008

Contact:
Mark Schroeder, CEO
Home&Abroad
Phone: 303-544-0073
Fax: 303-546-0352
Mark@homeandabroad.com
www.homeandabroad.com

HOME&ABROAD'S TRIP PLANNER TAKES TO THE SKIES WITH AIRTRAN AIRWAYS
Large low-cost carrier provides an easy way for customers to plan a vacation.


BOULDER, Colorado (07/22/2008) – AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc., recently added online travel leader Home&Abroad's trip planning engine to its website. A Fortune 1000 company and one of the nation's leading low-cost carriers, AirTran Airways offers customers about 700 daily flights to over 55 destinations in the United States. Adding the trip planner to their website allows the airline to offer its approximately 23.8 million yearly customers an effortless way to plan details of a trip before getting on the plane, or even after arriving at a destination. Naming the trip planning engine "Getaway Planner" on their website, AirTran Airways can easily help their customers not only book flights, but also avoid many of the stresses of travel planning, such as finding nearby restaurants, mapping out sightseeing routes, and finding attractions to visit based on traveler interest. Home&Abroad's planning software fits effortlessly into AirTran Airways' website, making customized trips created using Home&Abroad's extensive content that are branded with AirTran Airways' logo and style.

"At AirTran Airways, travel is our business, and we want to make planning a trip as easy as booking tickets on airtran.com," says Tad Hutchenson, vice president of sales and marketing for AirTran Airways. "Our new Getaway Planner website combines an array of useful tools in one place, allowing passengers to plan any vacation, from romantic getaways to family trips, with just a few clicks of their mouse." AirTran Airways ranked number one in the 2008 Airline Quality Rating study.

Home&Abroad's trip planner is an easy-to-use application that can be added to any website. Clients benefit because they can offer their website users a value-added tool, and visitors benefit from utilizing Home&Abroad's feature-rich database of destination information to create a personalized itinerary for the destination of their choice. The trip planner offers quality content for over 100 destinations around the world, color and theme-customization options, and easy uploading capabilities for photos and business logos, enabling any travel-oriented business to create a trip planner that incorporates their branding and integrates seamlessly into the look and feel of their website.

About Home&Abroad: Home&Abroad is a travel technology company based in Boulder, Colorado. Their flagship consumer site, http://www.homeandabroad.com, was rated one of the top 25 travel-related websites by Travel & Leisure magazine in 2007 and has been featured by CNN, CTV (Canada's largest private television network), and many other media outlets.
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For more information about Home&Abroad or how you can add a trip planner to your website, please contact Mark Schroeder directly at 303-544-0073 or mark@homeandabroad.com.