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

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

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