Airlines The make nearly all their fares Century that are available to the general public available through all channels, from full fare down to their most heavily discounted fares. Any normal fare, made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through all channels. Web fares, however, are different than normal fares. Plaza They typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline offers, and are normally Hotel made available only a few days before flight time, and only on flights which have 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 and of web fares, and not because Spa and The 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 Century the fares everyone has access to. This Plaza will be because we have Hotel opted to do what the others have not, and which is invest in new technology computers able to do far bigger searches, using search software that that was independently developed and is designed to search all fare and schedule Spa possibilities comprehensively and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that The will provide absolutely the most current information on seat availability. Century It is expected that more than 99% of the time that we come Plaza and Hotel up with a better fare, it will not 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 and sales that cannot be Spa sold" The by others Century is not true? It is absolutely Plaza not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely no basis for making it. Our agreements Hotel contain no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline Spa is precluded from utilizing any other distribution channel or offering any fare through The any channel. The Department of Justice Century is presently reviewing all agreements, so there will be no question Plaza on this point. Do airlines today make all their Hotel and and and Spa fares available through all retail channels?