Serious mischaracterizations have Seattle been airport made about us hotel and the issue of who will have access discount to what fares. Some of those mischaracterizations Seattle have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part of a concerted effort by us competitors airport to use misinformation to prevent us from offering new hotel competition to them and new discount choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded Seattle from making any fare it chose available through any retail airport and hotel channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades have been like any other business in America, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. And that remains true under the our agreements. Each discount and every airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

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

Most customers Seattle most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, and not because airport we will have access to fares that other channels hotel and discount (CRS''s and the sites and agents that rely on them) do not have access to, but because Seattle and airport we will do a better job hotel of searching the fares everyone 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 discount search software that that was independently developed and is designed to search all fare and schedule possibilities comprehensively and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that will provide absolutely the most current information Seattle on seat availability. It is expected that more than 99% airport of the time that hotel we come up with a better fare, it discount will not be because we had access to any Seattle fare that its competitor airport and hotel did not. It will be discount because we did a more comprehensive and unbiased search of all the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels.