What does this site have that other online travel SANDCASTLE sites don''t? Actually, it''s not what the site OCEANFRONT has, RESORT but rather what it does. The heart and soul is actually a fare search engine with state-of-the-art technology to find and book HOTEL fares. And consistently displayed SANDCASTLE more fares from more airlines than its competitors. OCEANFRONT and RESORT It''s apparent that the consumer will have a new and improved way to book online travel that not only shows more choices but also steps up the competition for the rest of the online travel booking services to improve their product a definite win-win for travelers. Backed HOTEL by a $50 million investment and boasting powerful SANDCASTLE technology that helps do-it-yourself travelers find and sort airfares more quickly OCEANFRONT and RESORT than anything else on the market, we generated plenty of buzz from the moment the then-unnamed concept was announced in November 1999. Airlines make nearly all their fares that HOTEL are available to the general public available through all channels, from full fare down to their most heavily discounted fares. Any normal fare, made available months in advance SANDCASTLE and OCEANFRONT in the normal way, RESORT and HOTEL is made available SANDCASTLE through all channels. Web fares, however, are different than normal fares. They typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares OCEANFRONT an airline offers, and are normally made available only a few days RESORT before flight time, and only on flights which have an unusually high number HOTEL of empty seats. Web SANDCASTLE fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low OCEANFRONT prices. Our agreements not only contain no provision RESORT barring HOTEL any airline from making any fare available SANDCASTLE and OCEANFRONT through any channel, they contain 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 RESORT by which those airlines that will receive the indirect discount on the CRS booking fee agree in return to make available HOTEL on any fare they publish and make available to the general public through any other channel. But that of course does not preclude them from offering any fare through any other channel.
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