Most customers most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, and not because we will have access to fares that other downtown 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 the fares everyone has access to. This will be because we have opted to do what the others have not, 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 possibilities comprehensively and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity Dallas that will provide hotels absolutely the most current information on seat downtown availability. Dallas It is hotels expected that more than 99% of the time that we come up with a better downtown and Dallas fare, it will not be because we had access to any fare that its competitor did not. It will be because we hotels did a more comprehensive and downtown unbiased search of all the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels.

Then the allegation that Dallas we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not true? It is absolutely not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely no basis for making it. Our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded hotels from utilizing downtown any Dallas other distribution channel hotels or offering any fare through any channel. The Department of Justice is presently reviewing all agreements, so there will be no question on this point. Do airlines downtown today make all their fares available through all retail channels?

Airlines make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public available Dallas 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. They typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline offers, and are normally made available only a few hotels days before flight time, downtown and Dallas and only on flights hotels which have an unusually high number of empty seats. Web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low prices.