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 walt on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part of a concerted effort by us competitors to use misinformation disney to prevent us from offering new competition to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline hotel would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. walt Airlines for 2 decades have been like any other 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. Each and every airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers disney and hotel and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to drive walt consumers to channels which the airlines, rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines disney and hotel attempted to do so, the others would increase their walt market disney share hotel by appealing to those same consumers through the walt channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford disney to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive as it can possibly be through each channel to the consumers that prefer hotel that channel. This is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact that the airline business walt is a very disney low margin business - any airline that lost even a small group hotel of passengers walt would be at disney risk of swinging from profitable to money-losing in an instant. Airlines scrap for every last passenger because they have to.

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