Originally Posted by
rasheed
I expect the booking.com family to be right behind Expedia assuming the deal is not exclusive to them. That will turn on kayak/priceline and many other sites.
I think the much, much bigger aspect here is for bundles (air+hotel) where you can't get the lower unpublished hotel price unless you also book the airfare together. So, this will be give beyond options of Southwest Vacations...
Southwest recently brought Southwest Vacations in-house, so it will be interesting to see what type of inventory it gets.
Booking.com getting access to Southwest flights would make things interesting as it often has lower opaque rates than Expedia that it can include in packages while mentioning the hotel name. It also seems to carry a lot of bulk/unpublished airfares from Alaska and United which can help bring down the cost of last minute airfares. Southwest choosing to offer bulk/unpublished airfares via vacation package channels would be huge. It last offered that in the early 2000s when vacation packages to LAS were less than the cost of just the airfare.