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American Airlines (AMR) may yank its tickets from travel website Orbitz (OWW) in a dispute over how the website gets information on American ticket prices.
American wants travel agencies to access ticket prices direct from American, rather than going through middlemen called global distribution systems, or GDS, The Associated Press reported.
This would lower costs for the airlines,…
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American Airlines May Pull Tickets From Orbitz originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:22:00.
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