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History of Fareportal

Sam S. Jain, Founder and Executive Chairman of Fareportal, arrived in New York City in the early 1990’s and began working at a friend’s small wholesale travel agency. Jain quickly noticed the archaic practices of the business as they sifted through reams of paper to locate air fares or flight schedules. He set out to create a more efficient system that could aggregate the information digitally and in 1994 he launched his own B2B wholesale agency, FareBuzz.

Werner Kunz-Cho is the Chief Executive Officer of Fareportal Inc. the company owner of Online Travel Agencies CheapOair.com and One Travel. Glenn Cusano is the Co-CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Fareportal.

In the early 2000’s, Jain expanded the business capabilities into the B2C space with the launch of Fareportal in 2002. Soon after, he noticed a shift towards ecommerce across all industries. In order to remain on the cutting edge, he started channeling profits from Fareportal into the development of a proprietary ecommerce platform.

By November 2005, CheapOair was launched as the company’s first consumer online portal. Staying close to its traditional travel agency model, the concept of having customer care agents available 24/7 carried over to CheapOair. Jain insisted on having a telephone number prominently displayed on every webpage which was unheard of amongst competitors. Today, Fareportal’s worldwide team of customer care agents receive nearly 30,000 calls per day in support of the company’s CheapOair and One Travel brands.

Fareportal Highlights:

Fareportal is one of the top 5 consumer-focused online travel companies in the United States

Fareportal is the number 2 online travel company in flight volume

Fareportal partners with over 600 airlines, 1 million hotels, and hundreds of car rental companies worldwide

As of 2019, Fareportal is generating over $4 billion in sales annually

Fareportal makes it easy for customers to book on the go with our award-winning Apple and Android mobile apps for CheapOair and OneTravel. The CheapOair app now supports Apple Pay and Android Pay for a safe, seamless and convenient purchase process

Fareportal sees over 150 million unique visitors annually to our desktop and mobile sites