Serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. Some of those mischaracterizations hotel and & and Laguardia have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part of a concerted hotel effort by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent us from offering new competition & to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded from making any fare it chose Laguardia available through any retail channel it chose. Airlines hotel 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, no matter what Laguardia and hotel 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.

Most airlines today choose to make Laguardia web fares available only on their own websites, because these fares are so low it would be uneconomic hotel to offer them through the & higher cost channels. (It is, in fact, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have a website, and for that website to offer a few prices that are Laguardia and hotel below the prices charged for the same goods in the store or the catalog.) However whether an & airline chooses to make its web fares Laguardia available through CRS''s to travel agents and hotel the & and Laguardia websites that rely on CRS''s is strictly an individual hotel airline decision, & and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Several Laguardia third party websites hotel (such as intellitrip.com) today take & and Laguardia web fares from various airline websites (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one place for their customers. And of hotel course travel agents can & book web fares off an airline''s Laguardia website for a customer if they wish (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).