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We will provide consumers with a complete selection of all available airfares and travel itineraries. We have developed cutting edge technology to deliver Villas these options to the consumer and promises to offer the lowest prices anywhere. Our business plan is ambitious. Instead of relying on traditional computer De reservation systems, We are building our own search technology. We plan to give users access to every airline Santa fare, including those available only on the Internet. Travelers will be able to search for flights that leave from alternate airports, within 25 or more miles from their primary airport. Fe Or they could choose alternate dates and see whether leaving a day later or earlier could yield substantial savings. Airlines make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public available through all Villas channels, from full fare down to their most heavily discounted De fares. Any normal fare, made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through Santa 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 an unusually Fe high number of Villas empty seats. Web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low prices. Most airlines today choose to make web fares available only De 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 Santa common throughout the retailing world Fe and Villas and De for stores or catalogs to also have 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 Santa 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 as intellitrip.com) today take web fares Fe from various airline websites (which they can Villas do, De because nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one Santa place for their customers. And of Fe 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).
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