Most customers most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, and not because we will have access to fares atrium that other channels (CRS''s and the sites and agents that rely on them) do not have access to, but because we will do a better job of searching the fares everyone has access hotel to. This will atrium be because we have opted to do what the others have not, which is hotel invest in new technology computers able to do far bigger searches, using search software that that was independently developed and is designed to search all fare and schedule possibilities comprehensively atrium and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that will provide absolutely the most current hotel information on seat availability. It is expected that more than 99% of the time that we come up with a better fare, it will not be because we had access to any fare that its competitor did not. It will be because we did a more comprehensive and unbiased search of all the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels.

Serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. Some 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 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 atrium to charge and where they want hotel and atrium to sell their product. And that remains true under the hotel our agreements. Each and every airline, atrium no matter what kind of participation hotel it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

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

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