Airlines make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public available through all channels, from full fare down to their most heavily discounted fares. Any normal fare, made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through alpine all channels. Web fares, however, are different than normal fares. They typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline offers, and are normally made available only a few days before flight time, and only on flights which have an unusually high number inn and frisco and colorado and alpine and inn of empty seats. Web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low prices.

Serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. Some frisco of colorado those mischaracterizations alpine have been based on simple ignorance, inn but others have clearly been part of a concerted effort by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent us from offering frisco new competition colorado to them and new alpine choice to consumers. inn and frisco and colorado There is no agreement alpine by which any airline inn would be precluded from frisco making any fare it chose colorado available through any retail channel it chose. alpine Airlines inn 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 frisco 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 and whether or not to offer them colorado through any other outlet.

Then alpine and inn and frisco the allegation colorado that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements alpine for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not true? It is absolutely not true, and those who have made inn and frisco that allegation had colorado absolutely alpine no basis for making it. Our inn agreements frisco contain no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively colorado provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other alpine and inn and frisco distribution channel or offering any fare through any channel. The Department of Justice colorado is 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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