Most alamogordo airlines today choose to make web fares available only on their own websites, hotel because these alamogordo 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 hotel world for stores or catalogs alamogordo to also have a website, and for that website to offer a few prices that are below the prices charged for the same goods in the store or the catalog.) However whether hotel an airline chooses to make its web fares available through CRS''s to travel agents and the websites that rely on CRS''s is strictly an individual alamogordo airline decision, and will remain hotel 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 alamogordo for their customers. And hotel of course travel agents can book web fares off an airline''s website alamogordo for a customer if they wish (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).

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