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Serious mischaracterizations travel have been made lodge about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. Some of those mischaracterizations hotel have been based on simple ignorance, but others have reservation clearly been part of a concerted effort by us competitors travel 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 lodge through hotel any retail channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades have been like any other reservation and travel 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. lodge Each and every airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares hotel it offers and whether or not to offer them reservation through any other outlet.