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Expedia Group websites from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico, India and Dubai were experiencing outages.
Many Expedia Group websites in the U.S. and other locations around the world were down Sunday afternoon Eastern Daylight Time.
Searches conducted 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.
The outages were sporadic.
Vrbo, Hotels.com and Orbitz 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 message advise 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
Expedia has not replied to requests for comment.