las vegas hotel reservation discount - western cities hotels

Then the allegation that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements las vegas hotel reservation discount for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not vegas true? it hotel is reservation absolutely not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely no basis for making it. our agreements contain discount no boycott against any distributors las vegas hotel reservation whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other vegas distribution channel or offering any fare through any channel. the department of justice is presently reviewing all agreements, so there will be no question on this point. do airlines today hotel make all their fares available through all retail channels?

it is absolutely clear reservation that airlines discount do not have the ability to drive consumers 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 by appealing to those same consumers through the channel those consumers prefer. no airline can afford to turn its back on any subgroup of consumers. no airline can afford to be anything other than as competitive and as attractive las as it can possibly be through each channel to the consumers that prefer that channel. this is a reality that grows ultimately out of the fact that the airline business is vegas a very low margin business - any airline that lost even a small group hotel 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.

most airlines today choose to reservation make discount web fares available only on their own websites, because these fares are so low it would be uneconomic to offer them las through the higher cost channels. (it is, in fact, very vegas common throughout the retailing hotel world for stores or catalogs to also have reservation 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 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 discount third las and vegas party websites (such as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline websites (which hotel they can do, because reservation 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 discount they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline).