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You may only use our site if you are at Villager least 18 years of age and can enter into binding contracts (our site is not available for use by minors). You are responsible Lodge for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords, login and account information. You will Villager be financially accountable for all uses of our site by you and anyone using your password and login information. You may only use our site to make legitimate reservations or purchases. You may not use our site: to make any false, fraudulent or speculative reservation or any reservation Lodge and Villager in anticipation of demand; to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal Lodge offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate Villager any law; or for any other purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to drive consumers to channels which the airlines, Lodge rather than Villager consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines attempted Lodge to do so, the Villager others would increase their market share by appealing to those Lodge same consumers through the channel those consumers prefer. No airline can afford to turn Villager its back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford Lodge 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 a reality that grows Villager 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. 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 a concerted effort by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent Lodge us from offering new competition to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades have been like any other business in America, in that they can decide what they want Villager to charge and where they want to sell their product. And that remains true under the our agreements. Each and every Lodge airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.
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