most 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, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have a website, and for that website to offer condos a few prices that are below the prices charged for the same hot 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 is strictly an individual airline decision, springs and will remain so once orbitz is up and running. several third party websites (such 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 in vacation one place for their customers. and of course travel agents can book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish condos (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).

most 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, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have a website, and for that website to offer condos a few prices that are below the prices charged for the same hot 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 is strictly an individual airline decision, springs and will remain so once orbitz is up and running. several third party websites (such 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 in vacation one place for their customers. and of course travel agents can book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish condos (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).

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