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Over the last two years the U.S. airline industry has successfully reduced its capacity, restraining its desire to grow, resulting in a huge profit louisville kentucky hotel turnaround in 2010 as the economy slowly recovers. Now that they have their inventory under control, airlines are beginning to focus on how to reduce their distribution costs.
In a move that potentially has disturbing louisville kentucky hotel ramifications for travelers trying to find cheap airplane tickets and cheap vacation packages, American Airlines has informed louisville kentucky hotel Orbitz, one of Americas largest online louisville kentucky hotel travel companies, that it can no longer sell or display Americans fares on the Orbitz.com website.
Although no other online travel louisville kentucky hotel sites have been impacted by American Airlines decision concerning Orbitz, many travel experts fear that this is only the beginning of a series of moves to pull airfares off of independent travel Internet websites.
Orbitz is recognized as a contributor to a revolution of how travelers shop for flights, by consolidating airfares from many airlines onto a single website, empowering customers to easily louisville kentucky hotel shop for the cheapest deals.
louisville kentucky hotel American Airlines says that it wants greater control of how it sells tickets and other goods and services to online travel companies. American wants online travel companies to use an electronic pipeline it has created called AA Direct Connect.
If other airlines follow Americans lead and decide to delist louisville kentucky hotel fares now showing on online travel websites, travelers would lose a powerful money saving tool, namely the ability to compare fares from multiple airlines by visiting a single louisville kentucky hotel travel Internet website.