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It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to drive consumers to channels which the airlines, barcelona rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines attempted to do so, the others would increase their market share by appealing to those same consumers through the channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn its hotel back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive as it can possibly be through each channel to the barcelona consumers hotel that prefer that channel. This is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact that the airline business is a very low margin business - any airline that lost even a small group of passengers would be at risk of swinging from profitable to money-losing in an instant. Airlines scrap for every last passenger because they have to.

Then the allegation barcelona that we 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 not true, and those who have made hotel that allegation had absolutely no basis for making 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 any fare through any channel. The Department of Justice is presently reviewing all agreements, so there will be no question on this point. Do airlines today make all their fares available through all retail 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 barcelona a concerted hotel effort by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent barcelona and hotel us from offering barcelona new competition to them and new choice hotel to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded from making any fare it chose available barcelona through any retail channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades have been like any other business in America, in that they can decide hotel 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 barcelona be free to hotel decide individually what fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.