Airlines make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public available Seattle through all channels, from full hotel fare down to their most heavily discounted fares. Any lodging normal fare, Seattle made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through all channels. Web fares, however, are different than normal fares. They typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline offers, and are normally made available only a few days before flight time, and only on flights which have hotel an unusually high number of empty seats. Web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low prices.

Most customers most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, lodging and not because we will have access to fares that other channels (CRS''s Seattle 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 has access to. This will be because hotel and lodging we have opted to do what the others Seattle have not, which hotel is invest in new technology lodging computers able to do far bigger searches, using search software that that was independently developed and Seattle 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 on seat availability. It is expected that more than 99% of the time that we come up with a better fare, it will not hotel be because we had access to any fare that its competitor did not. It will be because we did a more comprehensive and unbiased search of all the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels.

Then the allegation that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not lodging true? It is absolutely not true, and Seattle those who have made that allegation had absolutely no basis for making it. Our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other distribution channel or offering any fare through any channel. The Department of Justice is presently hotel reviewing all agreements, lodging so there will be no question on this point. Do airlines today make all their fares available through all retail channels?