Shopping for travel should be easy
Our approach is to offer you a better experience through increased choice, complete transparency, best-in-class service and payment flexibility
Headquartered in Southern California and in business since 1989, Qtrip’s team of travel enthusiasts is pioneering innovations in travel shopping that make Qtrip the place for a quality trip. From the moment you start your search and see the widest array of basic and premium airline seating options, to discounts on hotels reserved for our members who book flights, a multitude of digital currency payment options, and extending to our support and customer service which is 100% inhouse, not outsourced, based in the U.S. and staffed 100% by more than 125 dedicated company employees – we believe you will love Qtrip for your next trip. We’ve sold more than 5 million airfares to date. Read our story and contact us anytime.
5,000,000+
Airfares Sold
125+
Team Members
Established
Since
Our Story
1989
Qtrip's founder, Jeff, launched his first travel brand CheapAir from his college dorm room. His inspiration? How to finance a backpacking trip around Europe.
1991
CheapAir opened a call center in Los Angeles. It was originally known as 1-800-CheapAir.
1995 - 96
The company grows adding call centers in Chicago and New York.
2003
The first online version of the brand CheapAir.com launched.
2004
We became the first travel site to allow customers the flexibility and savings of mixing and matching airlines not in partnership agreements to create one booking.
2005
Online sales overtakes phone sales.
2011
AmTrav launches with mission to make business travel easy.
2011
Introduction of “Price Drop Payback” feature; we become the only online travel agency to offer credits when airfares drop after purchase.
2012
First travel site to show in-flight amenities with each flight option.
2013
First travel agency world-wide to accept Bitcoin as an alternate form of payment for flights.
2013
First voice enabled mobile app in the industry, allows you to speak your request instead of typing it in.
2014
CheapAir becomes the first online travel agency to integrate train schedules into air searches, allowing customers to easily compare flight and rail options side by side.
2015
First online travel agency to sell flights to Cuba.
2016
First online travel agency to launch a monthly payment option for flights worldwide.
2017
Debuts industry-first shopping experience combining basic and premium airfares in a side-by-side comparison.
2018
First online travel agency to accept Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Dash for flight and hotel bookings.
2019
We became first consumer travel site to debut the “Next Generation Storefront” display, making it much easier for customers to compare different fares on a flight, as well as amenities in an “apples to apples” display.
2019
Qtrip launches!