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Old Jan 11, 2004, 8:44 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BillMorrow:
Didn't Seigel say several months ago that US would no longer give seats to 'opaque' sellers like Priceline? I seem to remember him saying that.</font>
He said they were going to lessen their dependence on them I believe. Note that I don't think it would be advisable for any airline to pull out from such channels totally, worst case you'd list inventory at the same or just a few dollars less than is available through other channels. Priceline and Hotwire do so much marketing, you'd probably end up selling a few seats through them even if the prices were the same as through other channels.
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