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Our agreements not only contain no provision barring any airline from making any fare available through any channel, they contain captiva an affirmative non-exclusivity provision that makes it explicit that no airline is prevented from making any fare it chooses available through any channel it chooses. Our agreement contains a non-discrimination clause by which those airlines that will receive the indirect island discount on the CRS booking fee agree in return to make available on any fare they publish and make available to the hotel general public through any other channel. But that of course does not preclude them from offering any fare through any other channel.

It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to drive consumers to channels which the airlines, rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines captiva and island attempted hotel 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 captiva back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline island can afford to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive as it can possibly be through each channel to the consumers that prefer that channel. This is hotel and captiva 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 island because they have to.

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 hotel for that website to offer a few prices captiva that island are below the prices hotel charged for the captiva 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 is strictly an individual airline decision, and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Several third party websites (such island as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various hotel airline websites (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one place for their customers. captiva and island And of course travel agents can book web hotel fares off an airline''s website for a customer if captiva they wish (although whether they get a commission on that booking island is up to the individual hotel airline).