TVPT Travelport Worldwide Limited

Video Message to Travelport Employees from Frank Baker and

John Swainson (Transcript of Video Posted on Employee Website)

Frank Baker

Siris Capital Managing Partner and Founder

Hello everyone. My name is Frank Baker. I am the Managing Partner and Founder of Siris Capital and we are incredibly excited about the take-private of Travelport. Now typically when we announce a transaction, I am actually there in the room with you and delivering this live, but given the complications around the “go-shop” period post-announcement, which I am sure Gordon will walk you through in more detail, we need to do this via video.

Siris is a private equity firm and we only focus on technology companies and almost every business that we buy is a public company that we take private. Now as many of you know, in today’s technology markets if your revenues grow double-digits, if you’re doing software, and most importantly if in the first sentence of your company description you can say one of two magic words, “SaaS” or “Cloud,” you attract an incredibly high valuation. However, if you’re more of an infrastructure player, if you’re a slower growth technology company, the public markets don’t treat you so well, and that’s where we spend all of our time at Siris.

We can acquire businesses of that type, which Travelport is a great fit, and take them private and create more value. We aren’t going to be subject to the whims of public market valuations, of quarterly reporting and we will really be able to be focused on creating long-term value within Travelport. We can make the right investments in our GDS business, which benefit our travel agent partners and the OTAs as well as the airlines and the hotels to create long-term value. Further, we can be massive supporters of eNett, which we all believe will deliver a tremendous amount of value over time.

I’d also like to introduce to you two other partners with us in this transaction. First, Elliott Management. I am sure many of you have read about Elliott in the newspaper and you know that Elliott is one of your largest publicly traded shareholders in Travelport. This is the third transaction that we’ve worked on with Elliott and they are a trusted and dear Siris partner. While we at Siris will be in the lead investor, so we will be the group that interfaces with the management team on a regular basis, Elliott will be on the board and will be a meaningful investor in this transaction.

I’d also like to introduce John Swainson. John is one of the Executive Partners of Siris. He is part of my team. John has had a long career in technology prior to joining Siris. He started his career at IBM. He was the CEO of Computer Associates and also ran all of the software businesses at Dell. John has been working hand in hand with the Siris team as we have been working with Gordon and his team at Travelport to complete our due diligence and underwrite the acquisition of Travelport. Post-close John will join the board and will also be the Executive Chairman. With that I’d like to introduce John Swainson.

John Swainson

Siris Capital Executive Partner

Hello. My name is John Swainson and I am an Executive Partner here at Siris. I have been working with the Siris team for the last few months on the Travelport transaction, and I am looking forward to a continuing role as I’ll likely become the Executive Board Chair when the transaction is completed. I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself and what I have learned about Travelport and why I am so excited about this opportunity. First, I have had a long career history in the technology industry. I started my career with IBM in the late 1970s. I had a variety of management experiences there including running many of the software and infrastructure businesses, including the TPF business for a while in the late 1990s, early 2000s. I left IBM in 2004 and went to Computer Associates where I was the CEO for five years and then left there and went eventually to Dell Computers where I worked with Michael Dell on the transformation of that business and helped him take it private and ultimately as you know take it public again.

I have been with Sirs Capital for about a year and have been working with them on large scale technology companies that are going through some sort of transition. What I’ve seen in the due diligence with Travelport has been a series of very impressive people, some really great technology that can get even greater as we go forward in time here and some great customer relationships and I am excited about all those things.

Look this is a very interesting industry. Travel and leisure is an industry that has lots of sort of secular tailwinds behind it. We think those are good, always good to be in a business that is in demand, and yet there are some challenges. The technology is clearly changing quickly, customer requirements are changing quickly and there is a real opportunity, I think to leverage the great things that this team has built up around mobile applications, around analytics and data, and just the platform itself to deliver more value to customers more quickly than we really ever before. And that’s really the opportunity that we see going forward.

Now we also understand that as a public company there are challenges and sometimes public companies have difficulty making some of the long-term investments they need to make because the public markets won’t necessarily underwrite those investments and those are the things that we think that as long-term investors in a private setting that we can potentially do. So we are looking forward to working with the team and making those investments to build a better and stronger Travelport.

Now in the short-term as Gordon has said to you there is going to be a “go-shop” period for about 45 days and then there is a series of regulatory things that we have got to get approved and we will be doing that. So in the meantime my message to you is keep focused on the business, keep working on closing Q4 and the year, and keep focused on your customers and building and delivering great technology and we will be back to you in the beginning of next year hopefully with an in-person kind of involvement, in-person meeting, and looking forward working much more closely with you then.

So, thank you again. Have a very happy holidays and we look forward to seeing you in the new year.

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The proposed acquisition of Travelport Worldwide Limited (the “ Company ”) by affiliates of Siris Capital Group, LLC (“ Siris ”) and affiliates of Evergreen Coast Capital Corp (“ Evergreen ”) will be submitted to the shareholders of the Company for their consideration. In connection with the proposed transaction, the Company will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) a proxy statement with respect to a special meeting of the Company’s shareholders to approve the proposed transaction. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to the Company’s shareholders. the Company also plans to file other documents with the SEC regarding the proposed transaction. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY, SIRIS, EVERGREEN AND THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. Investors and shareholders will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement and other documents containing important information about the Company, Siris and Evergreen, once such documents are filed with the SEC, through the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed with the SEC by the Company will be available free of charge on the Company’s website at ir.travelport.com or by contacting the Company’s Investor Relations Department at +44 (0)1753 288 686.

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