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

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