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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 us from offering new competition metropolitan to them and new choice airport and detroit to consumers. there is no agreement the by which westin any airline metropolitan 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 airport in america, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. and that remains detroit true under the our the agreements. each and every airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers westin and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

then the allegation that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" metropolitan because it 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 no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing any other distribution channel or offering any fare through airport any channel. the department detroit 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?