One week after Ariane Gorin took over as the new CEO of Expedia Group, the company issued a statement Friday that Chief Technology Officer Rathi Murthy, and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, senior vice president, core services product & engineering, are no longer working at the company.
Expedia Group Websites Subject to Outages
05.05.2024 - 22:05 / skift.com / Dennis Schaal
Many Expedia Group websites in the U.S. and other locations around the world were down Sunday afternoon Eastern Daylight Time for at least several hours.
In a statement to Skift late Sunday afternoon, Expedia Group tied the outages to site maintenance it conducted.
“We experienced technical issues on some of our sites over the weekend due to maintenance,” an Expedia Group spokesperson said. “Our teams quickly addressed the situation to bring our services back online.”
The company declined to provide further detail about the statement or to respond to additional questions.
Searches conducted early afternoon from New York, Puerto Rico and Dubai, for example, found Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Orbitz, Wotif, and eBookers — all Expedia Group brands—with notices on their desktop websites that the sites were unavailable.
Expedia.ca was down in Canada. Expedia and Wotif were not functioning in searches conducted from Portugal.
The outages were sporadic.
Vrbo, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Wotif and eBookers were down in India, but Expedia and Travelocity were up and running.
The outages began to be reported on social media at least as early as 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
The Expedia.com homepage message advised users to try use the app, “which may be available when the site is not.”
Here are some of the messages we saw on Expedia Group websites:
Expedia.com
The Expedia.com homepage stated: “Sorry! Our site is currently unavailable. We are working hard to fix the as soon as possible. In the meantime, try using our app; it may be available when the site is not.”
Vrbo
The Vrbo homepage stated: “Something went wrong on our end. We’re working to get things up and running soon. Check back shortly!”
Hotels.com
As of late afternoon Sunday, several of Expedia’s X accounts had not given any indication of anything wrong to its customers.
There are several unanswered questions about the outages. Why did maintenance take down so many websites?
Expedia Group last year completed a multiyear project to transition both Hotels.com and Vrbo onto the Expedia.com tech stack. There was no mention in the statement whether out outage was related to that platform migration.
Why did the outages affect so many of Expedia Group’s websites but not others such as Hotwire?
Were the outages global?
SEO consultant Michael Cottam tweeted about the outages early Sunday afternoon: “Wow, a bad day for OTAs! Both Expedia AND http://Hotels.com websites are totally down, and with different errors. At least http://Hotels.com has a “down for maintenance” message.”
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