Most airlines today Best choose to make Western web fares available only on their own websites, because these fares are so low it would be uneconomic to offer them through the higher cost channels. (It is, in fact, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have a website, Westwood and for that website to offer a Pacific few prices that are below the prices charged for the same goods in the store or the catalog.) However whether an airline chooses to make its web fares available Hotel through Best CRS''s to travel agents and the websites that rely on Western CRS''s is strictly an individual airline decision, and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Several third party websites (such as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline websites (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one place for their customers. And of course travel Westwood and Pacific agents can book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish (although whether they get a commission Hotel on that booking is up to the individual airline).

Most customers most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, Best and not because we will have access to fares that other channels (CRS''s and the sites and agents that rely on them) do not have access to, but because we will do a better job of searching the fares everyone Western has access to. This will be because we have opted to do what the others have not, which is invest in new technology computers able to do far bigger searches, using search software that that was independently Westwood developed and is designed to Pacific search all fare and schedule possibilities comprehensively Hotel and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that will provide absolutely the most current information on seat availability. Best and Western It is expected that more than 99% of the time that we come up with a better fare, it will not be because we had access Westwood to Pacific any fare that its competitor did not. It will be because we did Hotel a more Best comprehensive Western and unbiased search of all the fare and Westwood schedule Pacific possibilities that are available to all channels.

Our agreements not only contain no provision barring any airline from making Hotel any fare available through any channel, they contain an affirmative non-exclusivity provision Best that makes it explicit that no airline is prevented Western and Westwood from Pacific making any fare it chooses available through any channel it chooses. Our agreement Hotel and Best contains a non-discrimination Western and Westwood clause by which those airlines that will receive the indirect discount on the CRS booking Pacific fee agree in return Hotel to make available on any fare they publish and make available to the general public through any other channel. But that of course does not preclude them from offering any fare through any other channel.