Opodo

The name "opodo" is an ambigram, with rotational symmetry. See also: List of Swedish newspapers. Opodo also runs other successful online travel businesses such as Travellink in the Nordic region (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finaland) - see http://www.travellink.no, http://www.travellink.se, http://www.travellink.dk, http://www.travellink.fi, and in France Karavel at http://www.karavel.fr and http://www.promovacances.fr and http://www.vivacances.fr as well as a tour operator offering tailor-made deals to Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, South Africa, America, and the Far East from the UK at http://www.questtravel.co.uk. After the incident, chief editor Otto Sjöberg offered a public apology directed to Persbrant, and admitted that the article had been a product of "bad journalistic practice". For United Kingdom customers see http://www.opodo.co.uk, for German customers see http://www.opodo.de, for French customers see http://www.opodo.fr, for Italian customers see http://www.opodo.it Spanish customers should visit: http://www.opodo.es. This later proved to be completely untrue. Opodo operates out of nine European countries. It attested that Persbrant should have been forcibly committed to an alcohol-detoxification program.

Opodo offers a full worldwide range of travel products including flights (from more than 500 scheduled and low cost airlines), package holidays, dynamic packaging, city-breaks, hotels, car rental, event tickets, excursions, ski holidays, cottages, holiday rentals, and cruises. Received much negative attention in the end of 2005, after having published an article falsely accusing Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt of severe alcoholism. The travel technology provider Amadeus is a majority shareholder. Expressen is a Swedish right leaning tabloid newspaper founded in 1944. It is a pan-European enterprise, owned by a consortium of European airlines, including British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, Austrian Airlines and Finnair. Opodo is like Orbitz an Internet travel agency.