It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the ability to Disneyland drive consumers and and California to channels which the airlines, rather than consumers, prefer. If one or more airlines attempted to do so, the others would increase their market share and by appealing to those same consumers through the channel those consumers hotel prefer. No airline can afford Disneyland to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. No airline can afford to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive as and it can California possibly be through each channel to the consumers and that prefer that channel. This is a reality that grows 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 hotel and Disneyland passenger because they have to. Our agreements not only contain no provision barring any airline and and California from making any fare available through any channel, they contain an affirmative non-exclusivity provision that and 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 hotel clause Disneyland by which those airlines and 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 public through any other California channel. But that of course and does not preclude them from offering any fare through any other channel. Serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who will have access to what hotel fares. Disneyland Some of those mischaracterizations have been based on simple ignorance, but others have and clearly California been part of a concerted effort by us competitors to and and hotel use misinformation Disneyland to prevent us from offering new competition and and California to them and new choice to consumers. There is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded from making and any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. Airlines for 2 decades hotel have been like any other business in America, Disneyland and and and California in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want and to hotel and Disneyland sell their product. and and California And that remains true under the our agreements. Each and every airline, no matter what and kind of participation hotel 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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