Our alton agreements not only contain no provision barring any airline from making il any fare available through any channel, they contain an affirmative non-exclusivity provision that makes it explicit that no airline is prevented from making any fare it chooses available through any channel it chooses. Our agreement contains a non-discrimination clause by which those airlines that will hotel receive the indirect discount on the CRS booking fee agree in return to make available on any fare they publish and make available to the general public through any other channel. But that of course does not preclude alton them il from offering any fare through any other channel.

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

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