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

Then fish and camp and ca and apple the allegation tree that we are "an illegal boycott inn against third party fish distributors" because it camp 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 ca had absolutely no basis for making it. Our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors apple and tree whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other distribution channel inn or offering any fare through any channel. The Department fish of Justice camp is presently reviewing ca all agreements, so there will be no question on this point. Do airlines today make apple and tree all their fares available inn through all retail channels?

It is absolutely clear that airlines fish do not have the ability to drive consumers camp to channels which the airlines, rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines attempted to do so, the ca others would increase their market share by appealing to those same consumers through apple the channel those consumers prefer. tree No airline can afford to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford to be anything other inn than fish as competitive and camp as attractive as it can possibly ca be through each channel to the consumers apple that prefer that tree channel. This is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact inn that the airline business is a very low margin business - any airline fish that lost even a small group of passengers would camp be at risk of swinging from profitable ca to money-losing in an instant. Airlines scrap for every last passenger because they have to.

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