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

We will provide consumers with a complete selection of all Travelodge available airfares and travel itineraries. Ambassador We have developed cutting Strip edge technology to deliver these options to the consumer and promises to offer the lowest prices anywhere. Our business plan is ambitious. Instead of relying on traditional computer Inn and Travelodge reservation systems, We are building our own Ambassador search technology. We plan to give users access to every airline fare, including those available only on the Internet. Travelers will be able to search for Strip flights that Inn leave from alternate airports, within 25 or more miles from Travelodge their primary airport. Or Ambassador they could choose alternate dates and see whether leaving a day later or earlier could yield substantial Strip savings.

Serious mischaracterizations have Inn been Travelodge made about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. Some Ambassador of those mischaracterizations have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part of a concerted effort by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent us from offering new Strip competition to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. 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 Inn their product. And that remains true under the our agreements. Travelodge and Ambassador and Strip Each and Inn 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 Travelodge them through any other outlet.

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