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Airlines make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public available through all channels, Kahala from full fare down to their most heavily discounted fares. Any normal fare, made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through Mandarin all channels. Oriental Web fares, however, are different than normal fares. They Kahala typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline offers, and are normally made available only a few days before flight time, and only on flights which have an unusually high number of empty seats. Web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and Mandarin and Oriental are offered at very low prices. Most airlines today choose to make web fares available only on their own websites, Kahala because these fares are so low it would be uneconomic to offer them through the higher cost channels. Mandarin (It is, in fact, very common throughout Oriental the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have Kahala and Mandarin a website, and for that website 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 is strictly an individual airline decision, Oriental and Kahala and will remain so once Orbitz is up and running. Mandarin Several third party websites (such as Oriental intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline Kahala websites Mandarin (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) Oriental and display them in one place Kahala for their customers. And Mandarin of course travel agents can Oriental book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual Kahala airline). Airlines make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public available through all channels, Mandarin from full fare down to their most heavily discounted Oriental fares. Any normal fare, Kahala made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through all channels. Web fares, however, are different than normal fares. They typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline offers, and are normally made available only a few days before flight time, and only on flights which have Mandarin and Oriental an unusually high number of empty seats. Web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low prices.
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