What does this site have that other online travel sites don''t? Actually, it''s not what the site has, but rather what it does. The heart and soul is actually a fare search engine with state-of-the-art technology to find and book fares. econo lodge and consistently displayed more fares from more airlines than its competitors. it''s apparent that the consumer will have a new and improved way to book online travel that not only shows more choices but also steps up the competition for the rest of the online travel lodge booking services to improve their ft. product a definite win-win for travelers. backed by a $50 million investment and boasting powerful technology that helps do-it-yourself travelers find and sort airfares more quickly than anything else on the market, we generated pierce plenty of buzz econo from the moment the then-unnamed lodge concept was announced in november 1999.

serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the issue of who will have access to what fares. some of ft. those mischaracterizations have been based on pierce simple ignorance, econo but others have clearly been part of a concerted effort lodge by us competitors to ft. use misinformation to prevent us from offering new competition pierce to them and new choice to consumers. there is no agreement econo by which any airline would be precluded from making any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. airlines for 2 decades have been like any lodge 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 true under the our agreements. each 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.

then the allegation that we are "an illegal boycott against third party distributors" because it has "requirements for posting fare sales that cannot be sold" by others is ft. and pierce not true? it is absolutely not true, and those who have made that allegation had absolutely econo no basis for making it. our agreements contain no boycott against any distributors whatsoever, and lodge in fact affirmatively provide that no airline is precluded from utilizing ft. any other distribution channel or offering any fare through any channel. the department of justice pierce 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?

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