Most airlines today Allentown-Days choose to make web fares available only on their own websites, Inn because these fares are and Conference so low it would be uneconomic Center and Allentown-Days to offer them through the higher cost channels. (It is, in fact, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have Inn and a website, and for Conference that website to offer a few prices that are below the prices charged for the same goods Center in the store or the catalog.) Allentown-Days However whether an airline chooses Inn and to make its web fares available through CRS''s to travel agents and Conference the websites that rely Center on CRS''s is strictly an individual airline Allentown-Days and Inn decision, and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Several third party websites (such as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline Conference websites (which they can do, because Center nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one place for their customers. And of course travel agents can book Allentown-Days web fares off an airline''s website for Inn and a customer if they wish (although whether they get a commission Conference on that booking is Center and Allentown-Days up Inn and to the individual airline).

Then the allegation Conference that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others Center is not true? Allentown-Days It is absolutely not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely Inn no basis for making it. Our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other distribution channel or offering any fare through any channel. The Department of Justice Conference is Center presently reviewing all agreements, so there will be no question on this point. Do airlines today make all their fares available through all retail channels?

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