Vacation Express
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History
Vacation Express was founded in 1989 by Kevin Hernandez, Gantt Cookson and Meg Deeb.[3] The company's initial offering was air/land vacation packages to Jamaica.[4] In 1992, the company began a charter flight from Atlanta to Cancun and eventually became known as a charter operator in the Southeast and Midwest.[1] By 1998, Vacation Express sold packages from nine U.S. cities to Cancun, Cozumel, Aruba and Costa Rica. That year, Vacation Express was purchased for $24 million by the subsidiary of Airtours International Airways, North America Leisure Group.[3] As part of the acquisition the Vacation Express began offering cruises, expanded its services into the Mid-Atlantic region and listed Baltimore as a chartered gateway.[5] After ten years in business, the company had grown to sell travel packages to 100,000 customers annually by 1999.[5] In 2003, Vacation Express was purchased by Flightserv Inc., a travel services division of Template:Proper name Capital Group, along with another tour operator for $16.5 million.[6][7]
In 2011, Sunwing Travel Group purchased Vacation Express for an undisclosed sum.[1] As a result of the sale Sunwing Airlines, a subsidiary of Sunwing Travel Group, sells fares through Vacation Express.[8][9] The company also sells charters flights through many airlines including Aeroméxico, Interjet, and iAero Airways.[10][11][12]
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- 1989 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)