Serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who 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 new competition to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline jensen would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel 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 they want to sell their product. And that remains true under the our agreements. beach Each and every hotel and jensen airline, 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.

Then the allegation that we are "an illegal beach boycott against third party distributors" hotel because jensen it has "requirements for posting fare sales beach 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 hotel boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and jensen in fact affirmatively beach provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other hotel distribution channel or offering jensen any fare through any channel. The Department of Justice is presently beach reviewing all agreements, so hotel there will be jensen no question on this point. Do airlines today make all their fares available through all retail channels?

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