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I can't say I care much. I care more about the fact that Southwest doesn't show up on orbitz, meaning that if I'm flying somewhere I'll check orbitz and Southwe
by hugh3 16y ago
I can't say I care much. I care more about the fact that Southwest doesn't show up on orbitz, meaning that if I'm flying somewhere I'll check orbitz and Southwest separately.
But American Airlines, unlike Southwest, is very low on my list of preferred airlines, so I'm not going to go check their site just in case it happens to be cheaper.
Still, they know they're losing a certain amount of business, and they've taken this risk for a bigger goal.
- cosgroveb 16y agoI doubt very much that Southwest will ever allow anyone to sell their tickets anywhere but their own site.
- hugh3 16y agoWhat's their logic there?
- nostromo 16y agoFrom what I've heard: They don't want third-parties to control access to their customer base. They don't want to pay third party sites bounties for customer acquisition. And they don't want to support some specific companies because of their connections to their competitors. (Orbitz was actually created by Continental, Delta, Northwest, et al to compete with Travelocity despite anti-trust concerns.)
- borism 16y agoAnd Travelocity is owned by Sabre, which in turn was created by American. A little bit of history there.
- joeyo 16y agoI've always assumed that there was some kind of fee that needed paying to get your airline listed on Orbitz.
- WildUtah 16y agoDoes Kayak have any plans to integrate Southwest and other low cost carriers into their results. There are tools like Skyscanner in Europe that aggregate low cost carriers the way Kayak does for airline websites.
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- jrockway 16y agoOn the other hand, I really like American, and only use the comparison sites to make sure I'm not getting too bad of a deal. AA out of Chicago is almost always cheaper than everything else. (Only time AA was too expensive was when I was flying to Singapore. ORD-NRT-SIN was $11,000, ORD-LAX-HKG-SIN on Cathay was $9000. Yes, I even do price comparisons when it's not my money. And yes, the ORD-LAX segment was on AA :)
- hugh3 16y agoIf those are the prices then you're obviously not an economy-class flyer, so AA may indeed work out nicely for you. :)
- jrockway 16y agoI do fly economy when I am paying for my own travel, and I still find it acceptable. Not non-US airline acceptable, but US acceptable :)
- ams6110 16y agoIf you like flying on 40 year old deathtraps, American is great.
- jrockway 16y agoI love the MD-80s.