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Discontinued Operations and Dispositions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Discontinued Operations And Disposal Groups [Abstract]  
Discontinued Operations and Dispositions

2. Discontinued Operations and Dispositions

During the periods presented, we disposed of or discontinued certain businesses or operations in order to further align Travelocity with its core strategies of focusing on product and customer experiences in profitable locations, and displaying and promoting highly relevant content. We believe these decisions will allow us to reduce our technological complexity by reducing the number of supported business platforms and operations.

Discontinued Operations

The results for the following Travelocity operations are presented in loss from discontinued operations in our consolidated statements of operations:

Holiday Autos—On June 25, 2013, we sold certain assets of our Holiday Autos operations to a third party and, in November 2013, completed the closing of the remainder of the Holiday Autos operations such that it represented a discontinued operation. Holiday Autos was a leisure car hire broker that offered pre-paid, low-cost car rental in various markets, largely in Europe. In the second quarter of 2013, we recognized an $11 million loss, net of tax, on the sale of Holiday Autos. The loss includes the write-off of $39 million of goodwill and intangible assets attributed to Holiday Autos, with the goodwill portion determined based on Holiday Autos’ relative fair value to the Travelocity Europe reporting unit. The sale provides for us to receive two earn-out payments measured 12 and 24 months following the date of the sale, totaling up to $12 million, based upon the purchaser exceeding certain booking thresholds as defined in the sale agreement. We recognized $6 million relative to these earn-out provisions and the resulting receivable is reviewed for recovery on a periodic basis. Any earn-out payments received in excess of the $6 million recognized will be recorded as a gain in the period received.

Zuji—In December 2012, we entered into an agreement to sell our shares of Zuji Properties A.V.V. and Zuji Pte Ltd along with its operating subsidiaries (collectively “Zuji”), a Travelocity Asia Pacific-based Online Travel Agency (“OTA”). At that time, the assets were recorded at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell. We recorded an estimated loss on the sale of approximately $14 million, net of tax during 2012. We sold Zuji on March 21, 2013 and recorded an additional $11 million loss on sale, net of tax during the three months ended March 31, 2013. We have continuing cash flows from Zuji due to reciprocal agreements between us and Zuji to provide hotel reservations services over a three year period. The agreements include commissions to be paid to the respective party based on qualifying bookings. The continuing cash flows associated with Zuji were not material to our results of operations for the year ended March 31, 2014.

Results of Discontinued Operations—We have reported the results of operations of Holiday Autos and Zuji as discontinued operations. The following table summarizes the results of our discontinued operations (in thousands):

 

     Three Months Ended March 31,  
             2014                     2013          

Revenue

   $ 98      $ 18,452   

Cost of revenue

     446        4,334   

Selling, general and administrative

     1,030        13,280   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating (loss) income

     (1,378     838   

Other income (expense):

    

Interest expense, net

     (1,161   $ (605

Loss on sale of businesses, net

     —          (10,829

Other, net

     1,058        (104
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total other expense, net

     (103     (11,538
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from discontinuing operations before income taxes

     (1,481     (10,700

(Benefit) provision for income taxes

     (383     317   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss from discontinued operations

   $ (1,098   $ (11,017
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Dispositions

Disposition of Certain Assets of Travelocity—In February 2014, as a further step in our restructuring plans for Travelocity, we completed a sale of assets associated with Travelocity Partner Network (“TPN”), a business-to-business private white label website offering, for $10 million in upfront proceeds. Pursuant to the sale agreement, we will receive two annual earn-out payments, totaling up to $10 million, if the purchaser exceeds certain revenue thresholds during the calendar years ending December 31, 2014 and 2015. In connection with the sale, Travelocity entered into a Transition Services Agreement (“TSA”) with the acquirer and will be providing services to maintain the websites and certain technical and administrative functions for the acquirer until a complete transition occurs. Consideration received under both agreements has been allocated to the disposition and the services provided under the TSA; therefore, a significant portion of the upfront proceeds have been deferred, based on fair value of the TSA services. We recognized a loss on the disposition of $3 million, prior to considering the potential earn-out payments. We recognized a $3 million receivable for earn-out proceeds, which offset the loss from disposition utilizing the loss recovery method and resulted in no net impact to operating income for the disposition. The earn-out receivable is reviewed for recovery on a periodic basis and a charge will be recorded to operating income if it is determined that we will receive less than $3 million of earn-out proceeds. Any proceeds received in excess of $3 million will be recognized as operating income in the period collected.

On June 18, 2013, we completed the sale of certain assets of Travelocity (“TBiz”) operations to a third party. TBiz provides managed corporate travel services for corporate customers. In the second quarter of 2013, we recognized a pre-tax gain on the sale of TBiz of $1 million, or a loss of $3 million, net of tax, which included proceeds of $10 million and the write-off of $9 million of goodwill attributed to TBiz based on the relative fair value to the Travelocity North America reporting unit.