It is absolutely savoy 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 hotel so, the others would increase san their market share by appealing to those same consumers through the channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn its back francisco on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford to savoy be anything other than as hotel competitive san and francisco and savoy as attractive as it can possibly be through each channel to the consumers that prefer that channel. This is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact hotel that the airline san business francisco is a very low margin business savoy - hotel any airline that lost even a small group of passengers san would be at risk of swinging from francisco profitable to savoy and hotel and san money-losing in an instant. Airlines scrap for every last passenger because they have to.

Then the allegation francisco that we are "an illegal savoy boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not true? It is absolutely not hotel true, and those who san have made that allegation had francisco absolutely no basis for making it. Our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors savoy whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other distribution channel or hotel and san 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 francisco fares available through all retail channels?

Serious savoy 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 hotel offering new competition to them san and francisco new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which savoy any airline 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, hotel in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. And that remains true san under the our agreements. Each 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 francisco through any other outlet.