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Kayak.Com Increases Its Lead In Air Search With Multi-City And Cabin Class Functionality

Popular Kayak Buzz Enhanced with Region and Theme Targeting

November 17, 2005

NORWALK, CT - November 17, 2005 - Kayak.com, the comprehensive travel search site, today becomes the first meta-search site to search complex flight itineraries with beta testing of multi-city search. Also launching today are cabin class availability and enhanced features to Kayak Buzz.

Travelers who need to book trips with three or more city stops can now select the "Multi-city" option from the Kayak.com homepage. Users can also specify fare type, such as first, business and coach class. Kayak.com's powerful search engine will then find matching flights from hundreds of airline and travel sites, in one easy-to-use display. Consumers can customize the results for each leg of their flight using Kayak.com's signature filters to sort by stop, airline, price, time and airport.

"Millions of travelers already use Kayak.com to find cheap flights for one-way and roundtrip itineraries. But until now, no meta-search site has been able to search for a complex flight itinerary," said Steve Hafner, CEO and co-founder of Kayak.com. "About one-third of our user feedback requests multi-city search, so our engineers worked overtime to provide this functionality for the busy holiday travel season. We're delighted to help consumers find travel savings for even the most complicated itineraries."

Kayak Buzz Kayak Buzz, a new tool unveiled earlier this month that displays the lowest fares to the 25 most popular destinations from any airport or city, has been enhanced to target Buzz by region and theme. Based on customer feedback of the popular search feature, users can now personalize Buzz by region: World, US, Europe, Caribbean, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia/Oceania; and/or theme: ski, golf and gambling/casinos.

"If you just want to get away, Buzz provides a quick snapshot of travel ideas generated by hundreds of thousands of Kayak.com users," said Paul English, CTO and co-founder of Kayak.com. "It's also a fantastic tool for finding travel deals. Look for us to add more themes such as beaches in the coming weeks."

To get the Buzz, users input the departure airport or city in the Kayak Buzz section of the homepage and select the region and/or activity of interest. Within seconds, Kayak Buzz displays a list of 25 cities organized by popularity with an interactive map that displays all routes color-coded by price. The fares displayed are the lowest found by Kayak.com users over the previous three days.

About Kayak.com Created by co-founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia, Kayak.com is a comparison-shopping website that helps consumers make informed decisions in their travel planning. The site, which launched February 7, 2005, offers a comprehensive search engine that scours over 100 online travel sites, providing prices and itineraries for more than 551 airlines, 91,000 hotels and all leading rental car companies. Kayak.com displays more choices of available itinerary/price combinations than any other travel site, and is the first to integrate user-created reviews and ratings and other relevant travel information with real-time prices and availability. Kayak.com's investors include Sequoia Capital, America Online, Inc. and General Catalyst Partners. For more information, please visit www.kayak.com