Then the allegation that we are "an illegal 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 true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely no basis Alma 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 Days and Inn and Alma 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 Days all their fares Inn and Alma available through all retail channels?

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

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