Most Topeka airlines today choose to make Days 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, very common throughout the retailing world for stores Inn or catalogs to also have a website, and for that website Topeka to offer a few prices that are below the prices charged for the same goods in the store or the catalog.) However whether an airline chooses to make its web fares available through CRS''s to travel agents and the websites that rely on CRS''s Days and Inn is strictly an individual Topeka airline decision, and Days will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Several third party websites (such as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from Inn various airline websites (which they Topeka 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 Days website for a customer if they Inn wish (although whether Topeka they get a commission on that booking is up Days to the individual airline).

Serious mischaracterizations have Inn been made about us and the issue of who will have Topeka access to what fares. Days Some of those mischaracterizations have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been Inn 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 Topeka no agreement by which Days any airline would Inn be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades have Topeka been like any other business in America, in that they can decide what they Days want to charge and where they want to sell their product. And that remains true Inn under the our agreements. Each and every airline, no matter what kind of participation Topeka it has, will be free to decide individually what Days and Inn fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

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