It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to drive consumers to channels which the airlines, rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines attempted to do so, the others would increase their market share by appealing to those same consumers through the channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. hotel No airline can afford to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive as it can possibly be through each channel to the consumers that hood prefer that channel. river and hotel This is a reality that grows hood and river and hotel ultimately out of the fact that the airline business is a very low margin business - any hood and river airline that lost even a small group of passengers hotel would be at risk hood of swinging from profitable river to money-losing in an instant. hotel Airlines scrap for every last passenger hood because river they have to.

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