The new online travel service, Opodo, a direct online sales collaboration between nine European airlines, will be launched in Germany in December to rival the existing online travel companies, such as Lastminute.com and Ebookers.

Lastminute.com will be watching the operations closely to ensure that airlines do not begin to favour the new travel service, which has received E128m in investments from the airlines.

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