Serious 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 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 for 2 decades have been like any other business in America, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where volcano they want to sell their hotel product. And that remains true under the our agreements. volcano Each and every hotel airline, no matter what kind of participation volcano it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers and whether hotel or not to offer them through any other outlet.

Most customers most of the time will find volcano lower fares, not because of web fares, and not because we will have access to fares that other channels (CRS''s and the sites and agents that rely on them) do hotel not have volcano access to, but because we will do a better job of searching the fares everyone has access to. This will be hotel 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 developed and is designed to search all fare and schedule volcano possibilities comprehensively and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that will provide hotel 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 access to any fare that its competitor did not. It will volcano be because we did a more comprehensive and unbiased search of all hotel the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels.