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exv10w13

Exhibit
10.13

 

CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT

(including particulars of terms of employment required

by the Employment Rights Act 1996)

	 	 	 

	EMPLOYER

	 	TRAVELPORT INTERNATIONAL LTD of Axis One, Axis Park, 10 Hurricane
Way, Langley, Berkshire SL3 8AG United Kingdom. Registered
company number 1254977 England (“the Company”).
	 
	 	 
	EMPLOYEE

	 	Lee Golding
	 
	 	 
	DATE

	 	2 October 2009

	1.	 	Commencement of employment
	 
	 	 	Your employment with the Company began on 30th September 2002 which is the date of
commencement of your period of continuous employment. Your new role will commence
2nd October 2009.
	 
	2.	 	Job title
	 
	 	 	You are employed as Executive Vice President Human Resources, Travelport at Senior Executive
Leadership level. The content of your job may be varied from time to time.
	 
	3.	 	Duties

	 	3.1.	 	You will carry out such duties and comply with such instructions
consistent with your position and status as the Company reasonably determines from
time to time.
	 
	 	3.2.	 	You will primarily report to Jeff Clarke, the President and CEO
of Travelport (or his successor), and will also report to Gordon Wilson, President
and CEO of Travelport GDS (or his successor); provided, however, that the Company
may change this reporting relationship so that you have substantially equivalent
accountability and responsibility.

	4.	 	Place of work

	 	4.1.	 	Your normal place of work will be the Company’s offices at
Langley.
	 
	 	4.2.	 	You may be required to undertake business trips or temporary work
placements within the UK and abroad in the course of the performance of your
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	 	4.3.	 	You may be required to work on a permanent basis at any other
(current or future) premises of the Company or any Group Company within a radius
of 50 miles of Langley. If as a result of such relocation you are required to move
home your relocation expenses will be refunded to the extent provided for in the
Company’s relocation policy in accordance with the terms of that policy which may
be revised from time to time.

	5.	 	Remuneration

	 	5.1.	 	Your basic salary is £210,000 per annum effective 2nd
October 2009. This basic salary is payable monthly in arrears in accordance with
the Company’s normal payroll practices by electronic transfer direct to your bank.
	 
	 	5.2.	 	Your salary will be reviewed annually. Salary review does not
automatically entitle you to a salary increase.
	 
	 	5.3.	 	You are required to inform the Company’s payroll department
without delay if an over or under payment of salary, expenses or any other benefit
is mistakenly made to you.

	6.	 	Expenses
	 
	 	 	If you incur travelling expenses (other than travel to and from work), accommodation or
other expenses in the course of carrying out your duties, you will be reimbursed for these
by the Company on production of appropriate vouchers or receipts in accordance with the
Company’s current policy on expenses, a copy of which appears on the Company Intranet.
	 
	7.	 	Perquisites
	 
	 	 	During your employment you will be provided with perquisites for UK executives at your
level, including without limitation, car allowance, financial planning and travel
allowance, subject to the prevailing rules, policy or plan, which may be revised from time
to time. Your eligibility to participate in these schemes and to receive benefits under
them shall cease upon termination of your employment for whatever reason. The Company
reserves the right to vary, replace or discontinue all or any of these perquisites from
time to time.
	 
	8.	 	Hours of Work

	 	8.1.	 	Your normal hours of work are from 9.00 am until 5.15 pm Monday
to Friday inclusive with a 45 minute break for lunch. The Company reserves the
right to vary your normal hours of work at its discretion to meet business needs
and/or improve operational efficiency but without increasing the normal number of
hours worked.

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	 	8.2.	 	You will be required to work such additional hours as may be
necessary for the proper performance of your duties, for which you will receive no
additional payment.
	 
	 	8.3.	 	You agree that the maximum weekly working time limits in
regulation 4 (1) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 do not apply to you, and
that you shall give the Company three months notice in writing if you wish
regulation 4 (1) to apply to you.
	 
	 	8.4.	 	You agree to co-operate fully in assisting the Company to
maintain such records of your working hours as may be required from time to time.

	9.	 	Holidays and holiday pay

	 	9.1.	 	The holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December.
	 
	 	9.2.	 	You are entitled, in addition to the usual public holidays, to 25
working days’ paid holiday in each holiday year of employment, increasing to 27
days after five continuous years’ service and 29 days after ten continuous years’
service. Holidays shall be paid at your basic rate of pay.
	 
	 	9.3.	 	If the 5th and 10th anniversaries of your commencement date fall
during the first six months of a holiday year then your two day increase of holiday
entitlement will be available to you following the anniversary date. If these
anniversaries fall during the second six months of a holiday year then your holiday
entitlement following the anniversary date will increase by only one day for that
year.
	 
	 	9.4.	 	Where you are employed for a part of a holiday year only — either
on commencement or termination of your employment — you will be entitled to paid
holiday pro rata to the number of complete calendar months worked by you in the
relevant holiday year.
	 
	 	9.5.	 	The dates of any period of holiday must be approved by your
manager. Although the Company will agree to your proposed holiday dates wherever
possible, it reserves the right to withhold approval where necessary for
administrative or business reasons. Consent will not normally be given to your
taking more than ten consecutive working days holiday.
	 
	 	9.6.	 	In exceptional circumstances and with the prior written consent of
your Manager, up to five days unused holiday entitlement may be carried forward to
the next year. Any such days must be taken by 31 March in the next holiday year.

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	 	9.7.	 	On the termination of your employment, where you have taken more or
less than your accrued holiday entitlement as calculated above, an adjustment based
on your normal rate of pay will be made to your final pay by way of a deduction or
an additional payment as appropriate.

	10.	 	Sickness and sick pay

	 	10.1.	 	If you are absent from work due to sickness or injury or for any
other reason you must let the Company know by 10.00 am on your first day of
absence that you will be unable to attend. If it is not possible for you or
someone on your behalf to contact the Company by this time then you must ensure
that contact is made as soon as is reasonably practical thereafter. If you are
absent over a period of time, you must keep the Company advised regularly of your
progress and of your likely return date. Your manager will be your first point of
contact for these purposes.
	 
	 	10.2.	 	If you are absent due to sickness or injury for half a day or
more, immediately you return to work you must complete a sickness
self-certification form and submit it to your manager for his/her signature and
authorisation. Template self-certification forms are available on the Company’s
Intranet.
	 
	 	10.3.	 	If you are absent for more than seven consecutive days
(including Saturdays and Sundays) due to sickness or injury you must obtain a
doctor’s certificate in respect of your absence to date and any anticipated future
absence and give it or send it immediately to your manager. Thereafter any
further absence must continue to be supported by doctor’s certificates. If you
wish to return to work following a period of sickness absence and your doctor’s
certificate is for an open ended period or for a period which has not expired then
the Company will only allow you to return to work if you submit a further doctor’s
certificate confirming that you are once more fit for work.
	 
	 	10.4.	 	Failure to comply with the above procedures may result in the
loss of Company sick pay (referred to below) and may also disqualify you from
receiving Statutory Sick Pay (“SSP”).
	 
	 	10.5.	 	The Company’s sick pay year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
Provided you have complied with the requirements detailed above, and subject to
your length of continuous service, the Company will continue to pay you at your
normal rate of pay during any unavoidable absence through sickness or injury in
any given sick pay year (whether the absence is continuous or intermittent) for a
period of 26 weeks.
	 
	 	 	 	Any payment made to you under this provision will include any entitlement which
you may have to receive SSP from the Company.

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	 	 	 	Company sick pay will be reduced by the amount of any Social Security benefits
recoverable by you (whether or not recovered) in respect of your illness or
injury. Any payments made in addition to your entitlement to Company sick pay
as detailed above will be made entirely at the Company’s discretion.
	 
	 	10.6.	 	Where the relevant anniversary of your commencement of
employment falls part way through a sick pay year your entitlement to Company sick
pay for the sick pay year in question will increase immediately upon that
anniversary date, but any sick pay already paid to you during that sick pay year
will be offset against your new entitlement.
	 
	 	10.7.	 	If you are absent during one sick pay year (“year 1”) and your
absence continues into the next sick pay year (“year 2”) or if your absence in
year 2 commences within four weeks of your absence in year 1 then the absence
which falls in year 2 will be regarded as if it had fallen within year 1 and your
entitlement to Company sick pay will be calculated by reference to your
unexhausted sick pay entitlement (if any) for year 1. In this case you will only
qualify to claim Company sick pay in respect of your entitlement for year 2 once
you have returned to work for a continuous period of at least four working weeks
before incurring any further sickness absence. Until you have qualified to
receive Company sick pay in year 2 as described above any further absence from
work due to sickness or injury will also be regarded as having occurred in year
one.
	 
	 	10.8.	 	You may be eligible to receive SSP payments before you become
entitled to Company sick pay or once your entitlement to Company sick pay in any
given sick pay year has been exhausted in which case you will receive payment at
the SSP rate during your absence until your SSP entitlement has been exhausted.
Your “qualifying days” for SSP purposes are Monday to Friday (inclusive).
	 
	 	10.9.	 	If you are absent from work due to an accident which occurred or
a condition which was sustained as a result of the act or omission of a third
party any sick pay paid to you by the Company in respect of your absence will be
paid as a loan which you must repay to the Company if you are successful in
recovering damages in respect of your absence from work.
	 
	 	10.10.	 	The Company will be entitled, at its expense, to require you to be examined
by an independent medical practitioner of the Company’s choice at any time
(whether or not you are absent by reason of sickness or injury) and you agree that
the doctor carrying out the examination may disclose to and discuss with the
Company the results of the examination.

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	 	10.11.	 	For the avoidance of doubt the Company will be entitled to terminate your
employment in accordance with the terms of this Contract (whether with or without
notice as appropriate in the circumstances) during any period of sickness absence.

	11.	 	Pension and other benefits

	 	11.1.	 	The Company operates a defined contribution pension plan. If
you choose to join the pension plan then your basic salary will be reduced by the
amount that you elect to be invested into the pension plan, in accordance with the
membership category you select. Full details of the pension plan and other
benefits are shown in the Benefits’ Booklet.
	 
	 	11.2.	 	During your employment you will be entitled to participate at
the Company’s expense in the Company’s schemes relating to the following:
	 
	 	(a)	 	private medical expenses insurance;
	 
	 	(b)	 	permanent health insurance;
	 
	 	(c)	 	life assurance;
	 
	 	(d)	 	Well Being programme;

	 	 	subject to the rules of these schemes which may be revised from time to time. Your
eligibility to participate in these schemes and to receive benefits under them shall
cease upon termination of your employment for whatever reason.

	 	11.3.	 	Participation in the permanent health insurance (PHI) scheme is
strictly subject to the rules of the scheme which may change from time to time.
You will be entitled to receive benefits under the PHI scheme only in the
circumstances and for so long as the Company continues to receive benefits from
the insurer who operates the scheme. Your entitlement to receive benefits will
therefore cease if your employment is terminated or if you are able to work to
your normal capacity again, if you die, or if you reach normal retirement age or
if the insurer considers that you no longer satisfy the scheme’s other eligibility
requirements.
	 
	 	11.4.	 	The Company reserves the right to vary, replace or discontinue
all or any of these schemes from time to time.

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	12.	 	Confidentiality

	 	12.1.	 	You shall not either during the continuance of your employment
or at any time thereafter:

	 	(a)	 	disclose or communicate to any person or permit or enable any person to acquire any Confidential Business Information other than for any
legitimate purposes of a Group Company; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	use or attempt to use any of the Confidential Business Information in
any manner which may injure or cause loss either directly or indirectly to
any Group Company or its Clients or may be likely to do so or for any
purpose other than in the discharge of your duties hereunder; or
	 
	 	(c)	 	sell or seek to sell to anyone Confidential Business
Information other than for any legitimate purposes of a Group Company; or
	 
	 	(d)	 	obtain or seek to obtain any financial advantage direct
or indirect from the disclosure of Confidential Business Information other
than for a Group Company.

	 	 	 	During the continuance of your employment and at all times thereafter you shall
use your best endeavours to prevent the unauthorised publication or
disclosure of the Confidential Business Information or any part thereof.

	 	12.2	 	This Clause shall not apply to:

	 	(a)	 	information or knowledge which comes into the public domain other
than in consequence of your default;
	 
	 	(b)	 	any information which you have acquired other than through the
performance of your duties for a Group Company; or
	 
	 	(c)	 	any information which is required to be disclosed by you by order of
a court of competent jurisdiction or an appropriate regulatory authority
or otherwise required by law.

	 	12.3	 	Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude you from making a protected
disclosure for the purposes of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998.

	13.	 	Activities during your employment

	 	13.1.	 	During your employment you may only be engaged, concerned or
interested (whether directly or indirectly) in any other trade, business or
occupation with the prior written consent of the Company, as set forth in

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	 	 	 	the Travelport Code of Business Conduct & Ethics (“the Code”). Subject to the
provisions of the Code, the Company will not unreasonably withhold such consent
but consent will not be given where the outside activity in question gives rise
to any conflict of interest with regard to the Company’s business or if it is
likely to detract from the proper performance of your duties under this
contract.
	 
	 	13.2.	 	During your employment you must not, except with the Company’s
written consent and subject to the provisions of the Code, introduce to any other
competing business orders for goods or services with which the Company is able to
deal.
	 
	 	13.3.	 	During your employment you must not, except with the Company’s
express written consent or instructions, represent yourself as the Company’s
authorised agent save as is required in the normal course of your duties. You
must not communicate with any member of the press or media or publish any letter,
article or document on behalf of or referring to the Company without the express
prior permission of the Corporate Communications Department.

	14.	 	Intellectual Property

	 	14.1.	 	All copyright, design rights, database rights, trademarks, and
any other intellectual property rights (other than patents) in any software,
databases, specifications, manuals, prototypes, records, documents, (including all
material stored in computer readable form), drawings, designs, business ideas or
methods and any other material or work (the “Materials”) of any description that
is capable of protection under the intellectual property laws (other than patent
law) or laws of confidence of any country which is made, developed, created,
devised or designed (whether alone or with any other person) by you in the course
of your employment will be the property of and will belong to the Company unless
otherwise agreed in writing by the Company.
	 
	 	14.2.	 	You agree that you will use the Materials only for the purpose
of the Company’s business and that you will return the Materials and all copies
and extracts from the Materials, to the Company on demand at any time and without
demand on the termination of your employment, howsoever arising.
	 
	 	14.3.	 	You shall promptly disclose full details of all inventions,
discoveries, processes or formulae or any other matter which is capable of patent
protection under the intellectual property laws of any country which is made,
created, developed, or devised by you in the course of your employment
(“Inventions”) in writing to a Director of the Company, and shall if requested by
the Company deliver to the Company all copies and

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	 	 	 	material representations of such Inventions in your possession, custody or
control.
	 
	 	14.4.	 	To the extent that under the mandatory laws of any country an
Invention or any patent or other rights therein belongs to you, you shall on
request by the Company negotiate with the Company in good faith for the assignment
or licence of the Invention and such rights to the Company.
	 
	 	14.5.	 	All other Inventions and all other rights therein shall belong
to the Company, and, to the extent not already legally owned by the Company, shall
be held on trust for the Company, and at the Company’s request and cost you shall
execute any documents and do all things necessary to substantiate the Company’s
ownership thereof and to obtain registration or protection thereof in any country.
	 
	 	14.6.	 	You irrevocably appoint the Company to be your attorney in your
name, and on your behalf:

	 
	 	14.6.1.	 	to execute any instrument, to do any thing, and generally to use your
name for the purpose of giving the Company (or its nominee) the full benefit of
the provisions of clauses 14.1 to 14.5 above; and
	 
	 	14.6.2.	 	to give to any third party a certificate in writing (signed by a
director or secretary of the Company) confirming that any instrument or act
falls within the authority conferred by this clause; such a certificate will be
deemed to be conclusive evidence that this is the case.
	 

	 	14.7.	 	Save as provided above, you shall keep all Inventions and all
details thereof confidential to yourself and any lawyer or patent agent instructed
by you. You shall not without the Company’s consent apply for protection or
registration in any country of any Invention belonging to the Company and shall
promptly inform the Company if you apply for protection or registration of an
Invention belonging to you in any country.

	15.	 	Disciplinary and grievance procedure
	 
	 	 	The Company has disciplinary and grievance procedures which appear on the Company intranet.
The disciplinary and grievance procedures are not incorporated by reference in this contract
of employment and therefore do not form part of your contract of employment.
	 
	16.	 	Termination of employment

	 	16.1.	 	Subject as follows the Company can terminate your employment at
any time by giving you 12 months written notice.

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	 	16.2.	 	You may terminate your employment at any time by giving the Company at least
12 months written notice.
	 
	 	16.3.	 	 

	 	16.3.1.	 	After notice of termination has been given by either you or the Company,
provided that the Company continues to provide you with your normal salary and
contractual benefits under this contract until your employment terminates, the
Company may at its absolute discretion at any time during your notice period:

	 	(a)	 	exclude you from the premises of the
Company and/or any Group Company;
	 
	 	(b)	 	require you to carry out specified duties
other than your normal duties or to carry out no duties;
	 
	 	(c)	 	require you to return any property
belonging to the Company which is in your possession;
	 
	 	(d)	 	require that you resign immediately from
any offices you hold in any Group Company;
	 
	 	(e)	 	announce to employees, suppliers and
customers that you have been given notice of termination or have
resigned (as the case may be); and
	 
	 	(f)	 	instruct you not to communicate orally or
in writing with suppliers, customers, employees, agents or
representatives of the Company or any Group Company until your
employment has terminated.

	 	16.3.2.	 	Any outstanding holiday entitlement accrued before or during a period of
exclusion pursuant to clause 16.3.1 should be used during the exclusion period
with the prior agreement of the Company.

	 	16.4.	 	The Company has the right to terminate your employment without
notice if you breach the material terms and conditions of your employment and/or
in the case of gross misconduct. Gross misconduct includes (but is not limited
to) dishonesty, fraud, insider dealing, breach of company confidentiality,
pilferage, being under the influence of alcohol or other substances at work,
flagrant disobedience of reasonable orders from superiors, causing actual or
threatening physical harm, harassment and causing damage to Company property.
	 
	 	16.5.	 	The Company may also terminate your employment (with or without
notice depending upon the severity of the case) if it discovers that you provided
the Company with false information or deliberately misled the Company when
applying for employment.

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	 	16.6.	 	The Company reserves the right, at its discretion, to terminate this
Contract immediately without giving the period of notice referred to in clause
16.1 or 16.2 (as appropriate) by paying to you your basic salary (less deductions
of tax and national insurance) in lieu of all or part of your notice period as the
case may be.
	 
	 	16.7.	 	Should you be involuntarily terminated for any reason other than
cause (as determined by the Company) or you resign in circumstances where you are
entitled to resign in response to a fundamental breach of contract by the Company,
and provided that you execute a compromise agreement that will be provided to you
by the Company in its standard form and that will include a release of all claims
against any Group Company or any of their directors, officers, agents or
employees, a non-competition provision for 12 months following your termination of
employment, and a non-solicitation provision for 12 months following your
termination from employment, you shall be entitled to receive the following
benefits, which, except as expressly provided herein in clause 16.6, shall be in
lieu of any severance or separation benefits under any and all other severance
plans, policies and agreements that may entitle you to severance or separation
benefits and which shall be less deductions of tax and national insurance:

	 	16.7.1.	 	A lump sum payment that is equivalent to 12 months of your base annual
salary at the time of termination; and
	 
	 	16.7.2.	 	A lump sum payment equal to your then current annual target bonus for the
year in which your employment terminates, pro-rated based upon the number of
days you were employed with the Company during the year of termination and for
which you have not otherwise received or been eligible for a bonus, and in lieu
of any other bonus for the period in which you are terminated.

	 	16.8.	 	The May 1, 2009 Management Equity Awards Agreement between Executive
and TDS Investor (Cayman) L.P. (“the May 1, 2009 Award Agreement”) is hereby
amended as follows:

	 	16.8.1.	 	Section 3.1(e) is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

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	 	(e)	 	Notwithstanding the foregoing in the event that:

	 	(i)	 	a Change in Control occurs at a time when
Executive is employed by the Company, Executive shall thereupon be
deemed to have vested in the unvested Restricted Equity Units at Target
(including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Restricted Equity Units
that remain unvested due to the failure in any prior calendar year(s)
to achieve the Annual Goals at Target) immediately prior to such
Change of Control (and such Restricted Equity Units shall automatically
convert to Vested Restricted Equity Units hereunder) and any Restricted
Equity Units that remain unvested after such conversion shall be
forfeited;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	Executive’s employment with the Company is
terminated by the Company other than for Cause, by Executive as the
result of a Constructive Termination, or as a result of death or
Disability, Executive shall be deemed to have vested in the unvested
Restricted Equity Units that would have vested assuming (1) that
Executive’s employment continued for eighteen (18) months following the
termination of Executive’s employment (“Accelerated Vesting Date”), (2)
that the award vests rateably on a monthly basis beginning on the prior
Vesting Date through the Accelerated Vesting Date over the remainder of
the performance period that ends on December 31, 2012, and (3)
performance at Target. For example, if Executive was terminated
without Cause on September 1, 2009, then Executive will receive
26/48ths vesting of all unvested Restricted Equity Units as
of the termination date at Target; and
	 
	 	(iii)	 	Executive’s employment with the Company is
terminated for any reason, except as set forth, and to the extent
provided, in Sections 3.1(e)(i) and 3.1(e)(ii), Executive shall have no
right to further vesting of the Restricted Equity Units that are
Unvested Restricted Equity Units (and such Restricted Equity Units
shall be Unvested Restricted Equity Units notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 3.1).

	 	16.8.2.	 	The following definition is added to Section 1.1 of the May 1, 2009 Award
Agreement:
	 
	 	 	 	“Constructive Termination” shall have the meaning assigned such term in any
employment agreement entered into between any Company and Executive,
provided that if no such employment agreement exists or such term is not
defined, then “Constructive Termination” means (A) any material
reduction in Executive’s base salary or annual bonus opportunity (excluding
any change in value of

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	 	 	 	equity incentives or a reduction affecting
substantially all similarly situated executives), (B) failure of the Company
or its affiliates to pay
compensation or benefits when due, in each case which is not cured within 30
days following the Company’s receipt of written notice from Executive
describing the event constituting a Constructive Termination, (C) a material
and sustained diminution to Executive’s duties and responsibilities as of
the date of this Agreement or (D) the primary business office for Executive
being relocated by more than 50 miles; provided that any of the
events described in clauses (A)-(D) of this definition of “Constructive
Termination” shall constitute a Constructive Termination only if the Company
fails to cure such event within 30 days after receipt from Executive of
written notice of the event which constitutes Constructive Termination;
provided further, that a “Constructive Termination” shall cease to exist
for an event on the 60th day following the later of its
occurrence thereof or Executive’s knowledge thereof, unless Executive has
given the Company written notice thereof prior to such date.
	 
	 	16.8.3.	 	The phrase “Subject to Section 3.1,” is added at the beginning of Section
3.4(a).
	 
	 	16.8.4.	 	The title of Section 3.5 is amended to “Partnership Agreement; Call Rights”
and the following language is added at the end of the existing language in that
Section 3.5:

	 	 	 	Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary in the
Partnership Agreement, Class A-2 Interests delivered pursuant to a
Restricted Equity Unit granted pursuant to this Agreement shall not,
until the earlier of (a) the end of the Restricted Period (as defined
below) or (b) the breach of any covenant contained in Section 5 of this
Agreement (the “No-Call Period”), be (i) forfeitable pursuant to
Article XII of the Partnership Agreement or (ii) subject to the
mandatory purchase provisions of Article XII of the Partnership
Agreement; provided that, in each case, any time periods contained in
the Partnership Agreement that would otherwise have lapsed during the
No-Call Period shall not begin to run until after the expiration of
such No-Call Period (or, if later, the date on which the Partnership
has actual knowledge of the expiration of such No-Call Period).

	 	16.8.5.	 	The “Restricted Period” as defined in Section 5.1(a) is changed from one (1)
year to two (2) years.

	 	16.9.	 	The parties agree that TDS Investor (Cayman) L.P. is party to this
Agreement for the sole purpose of agreeing to be bound by the provisions of clause
16.8.

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	 	16.10.	 	Upon termination of the Employment howsoever arising you will:

	 	16.10.1.	 	resign from all offices, trusteeships or positions held by you in the
Company (or any other Group Company) and transfer all nominee shares held by
you in the Company (or any other Group Company) without compensation for loss
of office or otherwise and, should you fail to do so, your manager is
irrevocably authorised to appoint some person in your name and on your behalf
to do, execute and perform any acts, deeds, documents or things necessary to
effect such resignation or transfer;
	 
	 	16.10.2.	 	deliver (or, if you are dead, of unsound mind or bankrupt, then your
personal representatives or such other persons as may be appointed to
administer your estate and affairs will deliver) up to the Company or its
authorised representative all property including (without limitation) all
documents, records, keys, correspondence, discs, tapes, telephones, credit
cards or other items in your possession or under his control which relate in
any way to the business or affairs or customers of the Company (or any other
Group Company) or are the property of the Company (or any other Group Company)
and all extracts or copies of them regardless of the medium on which such
extracts or copies are stored or held; and
	 
	 	16.10.3.	 	not at any time after the termination wrongfully represent yourself as
being a director of or employed by or connected with the Company (or any other
Group Company) nor make or publish any untrue or misleading statement or
comment about the Company (or any other Group Company) or their respective
officers and employees.

	 	16.11.	 	You acknowledge and agree that, notwithstanding that the personal contact is
between you and representatives of Clients, Suppliers, Agents and Distributors
(collectively referred hereafter as “Business Partners”), the relationship with
them is one which exists with the Company and is valuable to the Company and that,
so far as concerns those Business Partners whose business is handled by you, it is
capable of being damaged inter alia upon the cessation for any reason of the
contract of employment between the Company and you. For the purposes of
permitting the Company to ensure so far as possible that any such damage is
minimised, and so as to preserve the Company’s relationship with its Business
Partners after the termination of the contract of employment, and to ensure the
continued proper servicing of the requirements of such Business Partners, you
hereby undertake generally to co-operate with the Company and comply with the
instructions of the Board in securing the handover of the affairs of any such
Client, Agent, Supplier or Distributor to any other employee(s) designated by the

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	 	 	 	Company in a manner which will or is designed to ensure that the Company’s
relationship with such Client is preserved and that the Client
continues to receive a proper service from the Company; and acknowledges that
any breach of the above undertakings may cause loss or damage to the Company
for which it may reasonably seek compensation or injunctive relief from you.
	 
	 	16.12.	 	With a view to ensuring that your departure can be arranged with the minimum of
inconvenience or disruption to the business of the Company and its relationship
with its Clients and its other employees, you undertake to mutually agree with
your manager the timing and manner of any communication about your departure, and
to refrain from informing any of your colleagues (excluding your manager and the
Board of Travelport Limited or its successor) about the proposed cessation of your
employment hereunder, other than within the agreed communication plan.
	 
	 	16.13.	 	You acknowledge the right of the Company to monitor and control the performance
of its employees and ensure the proper servicing of the requirements of its
Clients, and acknowledge the fiduciary obligations attaching to your position.

	17.	 	Company Property
	 
	 	 	On request and in any event on termination of your employment for any reason you are
required to return to the Company all company property including e.g. mobile phones,
computer hard and software including discs and all documents in whatever form (including
notes and minutes of meetings, customer lists, diaries and address books, computer
printouts, plans, projections) together with all copies which are in your possession or
under your control. The ownership of all such property and documents will at all time
remain vested in the Company.
	 
	18.	 	Restrictive Covenants

	 	18.1	 	You acknowledge that in the course of your employment you are likely to
obtain knowledge of Group Companies’ trade secrets and other confidential
information and will have dealings with Clients, Suppliers, Agents and
Distributors (collectively referred hereafter as Business Partners) and that the
relationships with such Business Partners are proprietary rights belonging to the
relevant Group Company and that it is fair and reasonable for the Company to seek
to protect the interests of the Group by the provisions of this clause 18.
	 
	 	18.2	 	You shall not, either on your own account (whether directly or indirectly) as
a representative, employee, partner, director, financier, shareholder or agent of
any other person, firm, company or organisation:-

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	 	(a)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period hold any Material
Interest in a business which is either wholly or partially in competition
with any of the Businesses;
	 
	 	(b)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period, seek in any
capacity whatsoever any business, orders or custom for any Restricted
Products or Restricted Services from any Client with whom you have dealt at
any time during the period of twelve months prior to the Termination Date;
	 
	 	(c)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period, accept in any
capacity whatsoever orders for any Restricted Products or Restricted Services
from any Client with whom you have dealt at any time during the period of
twelve months prior to the Termination Date;
	 
	 	(d)	 	at any time before or after the Termination Date, induce or
seek to induce by any means involving the disclosure or use of Confidential
Business Information any Business Partner to cease dealing with a Group
Company or to restrict or vary the terms upon which it deals with the
relevant Group Company;
	 
	 	(e)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period be employed or
engaged by any person who at any time during the period of twelve months
prior to the Termination Date shall have been a Business Partner for the
purpose of carrying out the same kind of work as you have performed for that
Business Partner during the period of twelve months prior to the Termination
Date;
	 
	 	(f)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period approach, solicit
or seek in any capacity whatsoever any business, orders or custom for any
Restricted Products or Restricted Services from any Supplier, Agent or
Distributor with whom you have dealt at any time during the period of twelve
months prior to the Termination Date;
	 
	 	(g)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period deal with or
accept in any capacity whatsoever orders for any Restricted Products or
Restricted Services from any Supplier, Agent or Distributor with whom you
have dealt at any time during the period of twelve months prior to the
Termination Date;
	 
	 	(h)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period endeavour to
entice away from the relevant Group Company or knowingly employ or engage the
services of or procure or assist any third party so to employ or engage the
services of any person who shall have been an Employee;

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	 	(i)	 	at any time during the Restricted Period endeavour to
entice away from the relevant Group Company or knowingly employ or engage the
services of or procure or assist any third party so to employ or engage the
services of any person who shall have been providing consultancy services to
the relevant Group Company at any time in the period of twelve months
immediately prior to the Termination Date and who:

	 	(i)	 	by reason of his engagement as a consultant
by such Group Company is likely to be able to assist a business in or
intending to be in competition with such Group Company so to compete;
or
	 
	 	(ii)	 	by reason of his engagement as a consultant
by such Group Company is likely to be in possession of any
Confidential Business Information; or

	 	(j)	 	at any time after the Termination Date represent yourself
or permit yourself to be held out by any person, firm or company as being in
any way connected with or interested in any Group Company.

	 	18.3	 	Whilst the restrictions referred to in this clause are regarded by the
parties
hereto as fair and reasonable restrictions to be imposed on you, it is hereby
declared that the wording of this clause is severable and so much of the same as a
court of competent jurisdiction may regard as unreasonable shall (so far as the same
is possible) be deleted.
	 
	 	18.4	 	If after your employment ends you propose to enter into any contract of
employment, appointment or engagement you must before so doing bring all the terms of
this contract (particularly clauses 12, 14, 17 and 18) to the attention of any
proposed new employer or organisation appointing you.

	19.	 	Normal retirement age
	 
	 	 	Your normal retirement age is 65 years.

	20.	 	Deductions
	 
	 	 	You hereby authorise the Company to deduct from your pay (including holiday pay, sick pay,
bonus and pay in lieu of notice) any amounts which are owed by you to the Company or any
other company in the Group after due notification and authority (including any costs
incurred by the Company under the provisions of the Company Car Policy as amended from time
to time).

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	21.	 	Rules policies, procedures

	 	21.1.	 	You must comply at all times with the Company’s rules policies and
procedures relating to equal opportunities, harassment, health and safety, e-mail
and internet use, insider trading and all other rules and procedures introduced by
the Company from time to time. Copies of all rules, policies and procedures
appear in the Employee Handbook.
	 
	 	21.2.	 	In addition to those rules policies and procedures detailed in
clause 21.1 above, you must comply at all times with the Code and any Code
Supplements, as amended from time to time. You will be given a copy of the Code
annually, and will also be made aware of any material updates.
	 
	 	21.3.	 	For the avoidance of doubt the rules, policies and procedures
detailed in clause 21.1 and the Code detailed in clause 21.2 above are not
incorporated by reference into this contract, are non-contractual and may be
changed, replaced or withdrawn at any time at the discretion of the Company.
	 
	 	21.4.	 	Any breach of the Company rules, policies or procedures or the Code
may result in disciplinary action being taken against you, and in turn may,
dependent upon the circumstances and the seriousness of the matter concerned,
result in the termination of your employment.

	22.	 	Data Protection

	 	22.1.	 	You agree that personal data (including sensitive data) relating to
you which has been or is in the future obtained by the Company may be held and
processed by the Company (and where necessary its agents or appointed third
parties) either by computer or manually for any purpose relating to the
administration, management and operation of your employment, or in relation to the
Company’s legal obligations or business needs.
	 
	 	22.2.	 	The Group has offices in various countries throughout the world and
it may be necessary for one or more of the Group’s overseas offices to have access
to information held about you by the Company in the UK. However it is only
intended by the Company that information about you will be used by the Group’s
overseas offices for the purpose of enabling the Group to deal with personal
issues connected with your employment, including advising relevant statutory
authorities in order to obtain a work permit or visa or assisting in your
secondment to an overseas office or for pay roll purposes. You agree that the
Company may where appropriate transfer personal data (including sensitive data)
relating to you to the Group’s overseas offices.

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	 	22.3.	 	You agree and give authorisation that your company electronic mail
and computing resources will be accessible to the company without any further
prior consent during your employment and where appropriate after leaving the
company. All user ID and passwords combinations may be reset for access in
appropriate business circumstances.

	23.	 	Entire agreement
	 
	 	 	This contract contains the entire and only agreement between us and supersedes all previous
agreements between you and the Company, including without limitation the Contract of
Employment dated 3rd November 2006; provided, however, except as expressly
amended in clause 16.8, nothing in this contract amends or supersedes the Management Equity
Award Agreements between you and TDS Investor (Cayman) L.P.
	 
	24.	 	Changes to your Contract

	 	24.1.	 	The Company reserves the right to make reasonable changes to any of
your terms and conditions of employment.
	 
	 	24.2.	 	If the Company changes any of the terms and conditions of your
employment it will notify you in writing at least one month in advance of the
changes taking effect.

	25.	 	Meaning of words used
	 
	 	 	In this contract “Group” means the Company any holding company of the Company for the time
being and any subsidiary (as defined in Section 736 of the Companies Act 1985) for the time
being of the Company or its holding companies (including without limitation Travelport
Limited) and “Group Company” means any company in the Group.

	26.	 	Definitions
	 
	 	 	In this agreement the following definitions apply:
	 
	 	 	“Agent” means all and any travel agents and any other person, firm, company or organisation
materially engaged in the business of travel agency with whom you have had contact or about
whom you became aware of or informed in the course of your employment:

	 	(a)	 	who shall at the Termination Date be negotiating with a Group Company to be
involved in the supply of Restricted Products or Restricted Services; or

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	 	(b)	 	who has at any time during the period of twelve months prior to the Termination
Date been involved in the supply of Restricted Products or Restricted Services to a
Group Company.

	 	 	“Associated Company” means any company 20 per cent or more of the equity share capital of
which is owned directly or indirectly by the Company (applying the provisions of section 838
of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 in the determination of ownership), or any
other Group Company or any company to which the Company (or any other Group Company) renders
managerial, administrative or technical services;

	 	 	“Businesses” means all and any trades or other commercial activities of any Group Company:

	 	(a)	 	with which you shall have been concerned or involved to any material extent at
any time during the period of twelve months prior to the Termination Date and which the
relevant Group Company shall carry on with a view to profit; or:
	 
	 	(b)	 	which the relevant Group Company shall at the Termination Date have determined
to carry on with a view to profit in the immediate or foreseeable future and in
relation to which you shall at the Termination Date possess any Confidential Business
information;

	 	 	“Client” means any person, firm, company or organisation with whom you had contact or about
whom you became aware of or informed in the course of your employment:

	 	(a)	 	who shall at the Termination Date be negotiating with a Group Company for the
supply of any Restricted Products or the provision of any Restricted Services; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	to whom a Group Company shall at any time during the period of twelve months
prior to the Termination Date have supplied any Restricted Products or provided any
Restricted Services;

	 	 	“Confidential Business Information” means all and any Corporate Information, Marketing
Information, Technical Information and other information (whether or not recorded in
documentary form or on computer disk or tape) which is of a commercially sensitive or
confidential nature and any information in respect of which the Company owes an obligation
of confidentiality to any third party:

	 	(a)	 	which you have acquired at any time during your employment by the Company but
which does not form part of your own stock in trade; and
	 
	 	(b)	 	which is not readily ascertainable to persons not connected with the Company
either at all or without a significant expenditure of labour, skill or money;

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	 	 	“Corporate Information” means all and any information (whether or not recorded in
documentary form or on computer disk or tape) relating to the business methods, corporate
plans, management systems, finances, maturing new business opportunities or research and
development projects of any Group Company;

	 	 	“Distributor” means any person, firm, company or organisation with whom you had contact or
about whom you became aware of or informed in the course of your employment:

	 	(a)	 	who has pursuant to a contract provided sales and marketing services to a Group
Company in any territory of the world during the period of twelve months prior to the
Termination Date; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	who shall at the Termination Date be negotiating with a Group Company to
provide sales and marketing services to a Group Company in any territory of the world;

	 	 	“Employee” means:

	 	(a)	 	any person who is or was, at any time during the period of twelve months ending
on the Termination Date employed or engaged by a Group Company in a senior management,
senior sales, senior technical or legal position and who, by reason of such a position,
possesses any Confidential Business Information or is likely to be able to solicit the
custom of any Client or to induce any Client to cease dealing with the relevant Group
Company, were he or she to accept the employment or engagement offered and with whom
you shall have dealt at any time during the period of 12 months prior to the
Termination Date; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	any person who is or was, at any time during the period of twelve months ending
on the Termination Date employed or engaged by a Group Company and who at any time in
the six months preceding the Termination Date reported to you directly or indirectly,
and with whom you worked on anything other than an occasional basis during that six
month period;

	 	 	“Group” means all Group Companies from time to time;

	 	 	“Group Company” means the Company and any Subsidiary or Holding Company of the Company and
any Subsidiary of that Holding Company (and any Associated Company) from time to time;

	 	 	“Holding Company” means a holding company as defined in section 736 of the Companies Act
1985;

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	 	 	“Marketing Information” means all and any information (whether or not recorded in
documentary form or on computer disk or tape) relating to the marketing or sales of any
past, present or future product or service of a Group Company including, without limitation,
sales targets and statistics, market research reports, sales techniques, price lists,
discount structures, advertising and promotional material, the names, addresses, telephone
numbers, contact names and identities of clients and potential clients, commercial,
technical contacts of and suppliers and potential suppliers or consultants to a Group
Company, the nature of their business operations, their requirements for any product or
service sold or purchased by a Group Company and all confidential aspects of their business
relationship with the relevant Group Company;

	 	 	“Material Interest” means:

	 	(a)	 	the holding of any position as director, officer, employee, consultant,
partner, principal or agent;
	 
	 	(b)	 	the direct or indirect control or ownership (whether jointly or alone) of any
            shares (or any voting rights attached to them) or debentures save for the ownership for
investment purposes only of not more than 3 per cent of the issued ordinary share of
any company whose shares are listed on any Recognised Investment Exchange (as defined
in section 207 of the Financial Services Act 1986); or
	 
	 	(c)	 	the direct or indirect provision of any financial assistance;

	 	 	“Restricted Period” means the period of twelve months commencing on the Termination Date
unless the Company shall have exercised its right to place you on “garden leave” in
accordance with clause 16.3 above in which case such period of twelve months shall be
reduced by such period as you have spent on “garden leave”;

	 	 	“Restricted Products” means all and any products of a kind which shall be dealt in,
produced, marketed or sold by a Group Company in the ordinary course of the Businesses;

	 	 	“Restricted Services” means all and any services of a kind which shall be provided by a
Group Company in the ordinary course of the Businesses;

	 	 	“Subsidiary” means a subsidiary as defined in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985;

	 	 	“Supplier” means any person, firm, company or organisation with whom you had contact or
about whom you became aware of or informed in the course of your employment:

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	 	(a)	 	who shall at the Termination Date be negotiating with a Group Company to supply
goods and/or services; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	from whom a Group Company shall at any time during the period of twelve months
prior to the Termination Date have obtained any goods and/ or services;

	 	 	“Technical Information” means all and any trade secrets, source codes, computer programs,
inventions, designs, know-how discoveries, technical specifications and other technical
information (whether or not recorded in documentary form or on computer disk or tape)
relating to the creation, production or supply of any past, present or future product or
service of a Group Company;

	 	 	“Termination Date” means the date on which your employment hereunder terminates and
references to “following the Termination Date” shall be construed as from and including such
date of termination.

27. Notices

	 	27.1.	 	Each party to this agreement may give any notice or other
communication under or in connection with this agreement by letter or facsimile
transmission addressed to the other party. The address for service for you shall
be the address provided to the Company by you and the address for service for the
Company shall be as set forth in 27.2.4.
	 
	 	27.2.	 	Any notice or other communication will be deemed to be served:

	 	27.2.1.	 	if personally delivered, at the time of delivery and, in proving service, it
shall be sufficient to produce a receipt for the notice signed by or on behalf
of the addressee;
	 
	 	27.2.2.	 	if by letter, at noon on the Business Day after such letter was posted and,
in proving service, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was
properly stamped first class addressed and delivered to the postal authorities;
and
	 
	 	27.2.3.	 	if by facsimile transmission, at the time and on the day of transmission,
and, in proving service, it shall be sufficient to produce a transmission
report from the sender’s facsimile machine indicating that the facsimile was
sent in its entirety to the recipient’s facsimile number.

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	 	27.2.4.	 	Details for service of any notice or other communication on the Company are
as follows:

Eric Bock, General Counsel

c/o Travelport Inc.

405 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10174

Fax: (212) 915-9169

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Date
2/10/2009

Signed on
behalf of the Company by: /s/ Gordon Wilson

Gordon Wilson

Director

President and CEO Travelport GDS

Signed on behalf of TDS Investor (Cayman) L.P. with respect to clauses 16.8 and 16.9 only by:

TDS Investor (Cayman) G.P. on behalf of TDS Investor (Cayman) L.P.: /s/ Gordon Wilson

NAME: Gordon Wilson

TITLE:  Officer

EXECUTED and DELIVERED as a DEED

by Lee Golding in the presence of:

	 	 	 	 	 

	 

	 	 	 	 
	Witness:
	 	 	 	 
	Signature:
	 	/s/ G. J. Dadswell	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	Name:
	 	G. J. Dadswell	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	Work Address:
	 	Axis One	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Axis Park, 10 Hurricane Way, Langley,
SL38AG	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	Date:
	 	2/10/2009	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 

By executing this deed you acknowledge that you have read this contract of employment. Further, you
understand, agree to and will abide by all the terms and conditions of employment as set out above.

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Exhibit
10.16

SECOND AMENDMENT TO

TRAVELPORT OFFICER DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

WHEREAS, Travelport Inc. (the “Company”) maintains the Travelport Officer Deferred
Compensation Plan (the “Plan”);

WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Plan, the Company may amend the Plan at any
time; and

WHEREAS, the Company desires to amend the Plan to make certain advisable amendments.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as of January 1, 2011, as follows:

1. Section 2.8 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following new sentence to the end
thereof:

The Election Form and any related enrollment forms may be provided under an electronic or
web-based program or format as approved by the Company from time to time.

2. Section 4.1(c) of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following new sentence to the end
thereof:

“For Plan Years beginning on and after January 1, 2007, a Participant’s election to defer a
percentage or dollar amount of Compensation for any Plan Year shall not apply for subsequent
Plan Years, and each Participant shall be required to make an annual deferral election by
completing an Election Form prior to the last day of the preceding Plan Year.”

3. Article 5 of the Plan is hereby amended to add the following new Section 5.3 to the end thereof:

“5.3 Changes to Matching and Discretionary Matching Contributions

For the avoidance of doubt, the Matching Contributions and the Discretionary Matching
Contributions described in Sections 5.1 and 5.2 above are made at the sole discretion of the
Employer, the Employer is not required to make Matching Contributions or Discretionary
Matching Contributions for any Plan Year and, subject to Section 10.3, the Employer may
change, reduce or eliminate the level of Matching Contributions or Discretionary Matching
Contributions at any time or from time to time.”

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4. In all other respects the Plan is hereby ratified and confirmed.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Mike Adams	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	Mike Adams	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	VP, Global Benefits	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Date:	 	12/21/10	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

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