Our agreements not only contain no provision barring omni any airline from making 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 hotel chooses available through any channel it chooses. Our reservation and omni agreement contains a non-discrimination clause by which those airlines that will receive the indirect hotel 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 other channel. But that of course does not preclude them from offering any reservation fare through omni any hotel other channel.

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

Serious mischaracterizations omni have been made about us and the issue of who will hotel and reservation have access to what fares. Some of those mischaracterizations have been based on simple ignorance, omni and hotel but others have reservation 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 would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. Airlines omni and hotel and reservation for 2 decades have been like any other business in America, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where omni they want to sell their product. And that remains true under the our agreements. hotel Each reservation and every 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.