Then the allegation athens that we georgia are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not true? It is absolutely hotel not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely athens no georgia basis for making it. Our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors hotel whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other distribution athens channel or offering any fare through any channel. georgia The Department of Justice hotel is presently reviewing all agreements, so there will be no question on this athens point. Do airlines today make all their fares available through all retail channels?

A user-friendly search engine with the most current information ... the engine is easy to use, and the results are ranked with the lowest fares first. Travel sites are proliferating on the Web like strip malls in suburbia, but there''s one whose name you should remember. Expected to reinvent the online fare-finding georgia wheel when it launches in June. It aims to search every available flight combination for travelers, giving them the choice of cut-rate fares, fewest legs on a trip and most convenient departure times. This could radically alter an industry in which customers surf numerous sites before hotel making a purchase.

Most athens and georgia airlines today 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 higher cost channels. (It is, in fact, hotel very common throughout the athens and georgia retailing world for stores or catalogs to also hotel 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 athens an airline chooses to make its georgia and hotel web fares available through athens CRS''s to travel agents and the websites that georgia rely on CRS''s is strictly an individual airline decision, hotel and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. athens Several third party websites (such georgia and hotel as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline websites (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) and display them athens in one place for their customers. And of course georgia travel agents can book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual hotel airline).

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