Most airlines today choose to make web fares available only on their own websites, because these 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 world for stores or catalogs boutique and hotel 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 an airline chooses to make its web fares available through Miami CRS''s to travel agents and the websites that rely boutique on CRS''s is strictly an individual airline decision, and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Several third party websites (such as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline websites hotel (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one place for their customers. And of course travel agents can book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish (although whether they get a Miami commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).

What boutique does this site have that other online travel sites don''t? Actually, it''s not what the site has, but rather hotel what it does. The heart and soul is actually a fare search engine with state-of-the-art technology to find and book fares. And consistently displayed more fares from more airlines than its competitors. It''s apparent that the consumer will have a new and improved way to book online travel that not only shows Miami more choices but also steps up the competition for the rest of the online travel booking services to improve their product a definite win-win for travelers. Backed by a $50 million investment boutique and boasting powerful technology that helps do-it-yourself travelers find and sort airfares more quickly than anything else on the market, we generated plenty hotel of buzz from the moment the then-unnamed Miami and boutique concept was announced in November 1999.

Our agreements hotel not Miami only contain no provision barring any airline from making any fare available through any channel, they contain an boutique affirmative non-exclusivity provision that makes it explicit that no airline hotel is prevented from making 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 discount on the Miami CRS booking fee agree in return to make available boutique on any fare they publish and make available to the general public through any hotel other channel. But that of course does Miami not preclude them from offering any fare through any other channel.