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It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to drive billing consumers to channels which the airlines, hotel rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines attempted to do so, billing the others would increase their market share by appealing to those same consumers through the channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. hotel No airline can afford to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive as it can possibly be through each channel to the consumers that prefer that channel. This is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact that the airline billing business is a very hotel low margin business - any airline billing that lost even a small group of passengers would be at risk of swinging from profitable to money-losing in an instant. Airlines scrap for every last hotel passenger because they have to.