Originally Posted by
adamj023
Travelocity is Sabre which was an airline reservation systems founded by the airlines themselves.
Sabre was created by AA. Today Travelocity is Sabre Holdings owned by Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group. I don't recognize either of those as airlines.
Orbitz began life as a joint venture of AA, CO, DL, NW and UA. Today it is a public company, and I do not know if any of these airlines still own substantial interests.
In any event I missed the explanation of why ownership by airlines would make the affliated credit card a bad deal.
The details on the program are vague since it appears as though the card isn't out yet.
The Title of this thread is
What Credit Card should make a comeback?. It's specifically about cards which are no longer offered. The details of the recently withdrawn Travelocity Mastercard program are known.
I took the liberty of making the additional point that even the watered down forthcoming American Express version is better than the Orbitz card. I regret the confusion.