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It is absolutely clear that airlines do not have the doubletree la posada resort scottsdale arizona ability to drive consumers to channels which the airlines, rather than consumers, prefer. if one or more airlines attempted to do so, the others the and westin 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 la 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 ultimately out of cantera and resort the fact that the airline business is a very low margin the 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.

then the allegation that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it westin has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is not true? it is absolutely not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely no basis for making it. our agreements contain la no boycott against any distributors cantera whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing resort any other 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 make all their fares available through all retail channels?

serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. some of those mischaracterizations the have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part of a concerted effort westin by us la competitors to use misinformation to prevent us from offering new cantera competition to them and new choice resort to consumers. there the is no agreement by which any airline westin would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. airlines for 2 decades have been like any la other business in america, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. and that remains cantera true under the our agreements. each resort and every 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.