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Old Jul 9, 2001 | 12:32 pm
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aqueouschief
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Boston, MA, USA
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by 200 ngts/ 200 legs/year:
Without SWA, they are worse then TVLY or EXPE.

Air is no better and hotels, packages et al are much worse.

Hmmmm... Airlines losing money across the boards, biz travel off and now they can not even launch a competitive web offering.

Surprised?
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I have to disagree. Whereas Orbitz is no the end all of all ttravel sites, it is much more simple to use and compare than TVLY IMHO. But this latest round of Southwest action still perplexes me.

-You could not book tickets through Orbitz on SW, a disclaimer sent you to the SW site;

-so basically it was free advertising for SW, because there was no commission to Orbitz.

This seems kind of dumb to me…But it is now more of a pain to compare fares!
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