Oh, I beg to differ. Although airline websites are frequently awful, I always prefer to avoid a middleman if I can. There are things that can go wrong between a

Oh, I beg to differ. Although airline websites are frequently awful, I always prefer to avoid a middleman if I can. There are things that can go wrong between an aggregator and the merchant. More than once in Brazil I've seen a guest arguing at the check-in counter of a hotel -- he's showing a printout of his payment through an aggregator and the hotel manager is saying that they never got the payment and that if he wants to stay, he'll have to pay again and take up the problem with the aggregator himself.