Interview: eDreams CEO on Finding a New Way to Sell Flights
Photo Credit: Javier Pérez-Tenessa, the founder and CEO of eDreams Odigeo, a group of online flight-search sites based in Barcelona. eDreams Odigeo
Skift Take
eDreams Odigeo's stock price has tanked since it started trading in April. Still, if you look at some of the company's technology advantages, the flight-search group has a lot of things going for it if the company can stick it out over the long term.
Editor’s Note: Skift is publishing a series of interviews with online travel CEOs talking about the Future of Travel Booking, and the evolving habits and device preferences of travel consumers. Check out all the interviews as they come out here.
Founded in 2000 as a Silicon Valley vacation-packages startup with two employees, Barcelona-based eDreams Odigeo has emerged as a flight-search specialist that has rolled up five brands in Europe, employs 1,600 people, and executed an IPO in April, although its stock has tumbled and now trades for less than 3 euros ($3.81).
Founder and CEO Javier Pérez-Tenessa speaks of the complexities of flight bookings, the one trillion price changes the company monitors daily and the seven billion pricing decisions it makes on an hourly basis as "quite a paradise for a company of engineers, mathematicians and people like us at eDreams."
eDreams Odigeo, according to Pérez-Tenessa, operates in a way that is contrary to a lot of perceptions
