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

Most airlines today choose to make web fares available only on their own websites, because these fares are so low it would be uneconomic hotel and seatac to offer them through the higher cost hotel channels. (It is, seatac in fact, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs hotel to also have a website, and for that website to offer a few prices seatac that are below the prices charged for the same goods in the store or hotel the catalog.) However whether an airline seatac chooses to make its web fares available through CRS''s to travel agents and the websites that rely on CRS''s is strictly hotel an individual airline decision, 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 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 (although whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).

What does this site have that other online seatac travel sites don''t? Actually, it''s not what the site has, but rather what it does. The heart and soul is hotel actually a fare search engine with state-of-the-art technology to find and book fares. And consistently displayed more fares from more airlines than its competitors. It''s apparent that seatac the consumer will have a new and improved way to book online travel that not only shows more choices but also steps hotel up the competition for the rest of the online travel booking services to improve their product a definite win-win for travelers. Backed by a $50 million investment and boasting powerful technology that helps seatac do-it-yourself travelers find and sort airfares more quickly than anything else on the market, we generated hotel plenty of buzz from the moment the then-unnamed concept was announced in November 1999.