Our agreements not only contain no provision gatwick barring any hotel airline from making any fare available through any channel, they contain an affirmative non-exclusivity provision gatwick that makes it explicit that no airline is prevented from making any fare it chooses available through any channel it chooses. Our agreement hotel contains a non-discrimination gatwick clause hotel by which those airlines that will gatwick receive the indirect discount on the CRS booking fee agree in return to make available on any fare hotel they publish gatwick and make available to the general public through any other channel. hotel But that of course does not preclude them from offering any fare through any other channel.

Serious mischaracterizations have been gatwick made about us and the issue of who hotel 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 gatwick new competition to them and new choice to consumers. There hotel is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded gatwick from making any fare it chose available through any hotel retail channel it chose. Airlines gatwick for 2 decades have been like any other business in America, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. And that remains true under the our agreements. Each and every airline, hotel no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.