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It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability marriott to drive consumers to hotel 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 discount through marriott the channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford to be anything other than hotel as competitive and as attractive as it can possibly be discount through each channel to the consumers marriott and hotel that prefer that channel. discount This is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact that the airline business is a very low margin business - any airline that lost even a small group of passengers would be at risk of marriott swinging from profitable to money-losing in an hotel instant. Airlines discount scrap for every last passenger because they have to.