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 Most customers american most of the time will find lower fares, not because of web fares, and not because we will have access to fares that airlines other channels (CRS''s and flight the sites and agents that rely on them) do not have access to, american but because we will do a better job airlines of searching the fares everyone has access to. This will be because flight we have opted to do what the others have not, which is invest in new technology computers able to do far bigger searches, using search software that that was independently developed and is designed to search all fare and schedule possibilities comprehensively and without bias, and in telecommunications capacity that will provide american absolutely airlines the most current information on flight seat availability. It is expected that more than 99% of the time that we come up with a better fare, it will not be because we had access to any fare that its competitor did not. american It will be because we did a more comprehensive and unbiased search of all the fare and schedule possibilities that are available to all channels. Most airlines today choose to make airlines web fares available only on their own flight websites, because these fares are so low it would be uneconomic to offer them through the higher cost channels. (It is, in fact, very common throughout the retailing world for stores or catalogs to also have a website, and for that american 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 airlines 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 third party websites (such as intellitrip.com) today take web fares from various airline websites (which they can do, because nothing is more public than a website) and display them in one place for their customers. And of course travel agents can flight book web fares off an airline''s website for a customer if they wish american (although airlines whether they get a commission on that booking is up to the individual airline). A user-friendly search engine with the most current information ... the engine is easy to use, and the results are ranked with the lowest fares first. Travel sites are proliferating on the Web like strip malls in suburbia, flight but there''s one whose name you should remember. Expected to reinvent the online fare-finding wheel when it launches in June. It aims to search every available flight combination for travelers, giving them the choice of cut-rate fares, fewest legs on a trip and most convenient departure times. This could radically alter an industry in which customers surf numerous sites before making a purchase. Your online resource for flight information
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