marriott o hare - hotel travel packages

Airlines courtyard by marriott chicago o hare make nearly all their fares that are available to the general public o available through all channels, from full fare down to their most heavily discounted fares. any normal fare, made available months in advance in the normal way, is made available through all channels. web fares, however, are different than normal fares. they typically constitute less than one tenth of 1% of the fares an airline hare offers, and are normally made available only a few days before flight time, and only on flights which have an unusually high number of empty seats. web fares thus are seldom available, are unpredictable, and are offered at very low prices.

serious mischaracterizations have been made about us and the marriott issue of who will have access to what fares. some of those mischaracterizations have been based on simple ignorance, but others have clearly been part of o and hare a concerted effort by us competitors to use misinformation to prevent us marriott from offering new competition to them o and new choice to consumers. there is no agreement by which any airline would be precluded from making hare any fare it chose available through any retail channel it chose. airlines for 2 decades have been like any other business in america, in that they can decide what they want to charge and where they want to sell their product. and that remains true under the our agreements. each and every airline, no matter what kind of participation it has, will be free to decide individually what fares it offers and whether or not to offer them through any other outlet.

what does this site have that other online travel sites don''t? actually, it''s not what the site has, but rather what it does. the heart and soul is actually a fare search engine with state-of-the-art technology to find and book fares. and consistently displayed marriott more fares from more airlines than its competitors. it''s apparent that the consumer will have a new and improved way to book online travel that not only shows more choices but also steps up the competition for the rest of the online travel booking services to improve their product a definite win-win for travelers. backed by a $50 million investment and o boasting powerful technology that helps do-it-yourself travelers find and sort airfares more quickly than anything else on the market, we generated plenty of buzz from the moment the then-unnamed concept was announced hare in november 1999.