A user-friendly search engine with the most current information ... the engine is easy to use, and the results are ranked with the lowest fares first. Travel sites are proliferating omni on the Web like hotel strip malls in suburbia, but there''s one whose name you should remember. Expected omni to reinvent the online hotel fare-finding wheel when it launches in June. omni It aims to search every available flight hotel combination for travelers, giving them omni and hotel the choice of cut-rate fares, fewest legs on a trip and most convenient departure times. This could radically alter an industry in which customers surf omni numerous sites before making a purchase.

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

Most customers most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, and not because we will have access to fares hotel that other channels (CRS''s and the sites and agents that rely on omni them) do not have access to, but because we will do a better job of searching the fares everyone has access to. This will be because we have opted to do what the others have not, which is invest in new technology computers able to do far bigger searches, using search software that that was independently hotel developed and is designed to search all fare and schedule possibilities comprehensively and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that will provide absolutely the most current information on seat availability. It is expected that more than 99% of the time that we come up with a better fare, it will not be because we had omni access to any fare that its competitor did not. It will be because we hotel did a more comprehensive and unbiased search of all the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels.