Airlines pull off travel sites
Travelers lose as airlines, online sites square off
Airlines pull off travel sites to travelers' dismay. That's the gist of this post from the Seattle Times. In a quest for more control and more revenue, airlines are getting choosy and bossy about where and whom they allow to post data on fares. So everything you once knew about searching for cheap air fares is rapidly becoming useless information. Leave it to the airlines to make travel even more expensive and more unpleasant than it already is.
"It takes luck to snag the kind of deal I found on Delta Air Lines for a spring flight to Istanbul. I owe it to Kayak.com, a "meta-search" travel site that scans hundreds of fares on airline and online-travel sites, then links customers to those sites for booking.A routine morning check showed the flights I'd been tracking for weeks dropped from $1,400 to $989..."
