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

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

Serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue crowne of who will have access to what fares. Some of plaza and new those mischaracterizations have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part orleans and astor of a concerted effort crowne and plaza by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent us from offering new competition to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would new be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades have been like any other orleans business astor in America, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. And that remains true under the our crowne agreements. Each and every airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide plaza individually new what fares it offers orleans and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

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