Comments on: New website to shun British Airways, Cathay Pacific for Southwest, JetBlue

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By: Martin Rusteberg

Martin Rusteberg — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:23:28 +0000

why would they redirect budgetairlines to a travel holding (tourico) white label site when they could just place a link to budgethotels and give it some juice off of the press release?

looks to me like a premature entry in terms of their product…

By: Dennis Schaal

Dennis Schaal — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:45:11 +0000

Tom: I share your skepticism about BudgetAirlines being able to access Southwest. That is why I asked Chalmers about how he was going to get Southwest. Add Orbitz to your list. Do you remember when Orbitz launched? They began by merely listing Southwest’s schedules and Southwest freaked out and ended that very quickly.

As you know, there are a few corporate travel solutions and third-party providers like BookingBuilder, which access Southwest, but these agreements are rare.

Let’s see how BudgetAirlines handles it — whether it can get Southwest through some third party or whether they decide to try to scrape Southwest. We both know where that will end up if they try.

By: Tom Botts

Tom Botts — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:42:57 +0000

No way is this going to happen. Nice press release but if they think Southwest is going to suddenly decide to participate in meta and/or OTA channels – and particularly this one – I want what BudgetAirlines.com is smoking.

Southwest does not play in any of the metas (and has sued Kayak and SideStep to prevent even the display of schedules without pricing) and I highly doubt the starting point of such a radical change in distribution will be BudgetAirlines.com

Yes, RyanAir has relented and Southwest may too, but I doubt this is the starting place.

Good thing they are going to shy away from carriers like BA and CX – those are really fair comparisons to Southwest, JetBlue and WestJet – Not a single overlapping route! (Oh, and those guys are all obviously in the GDS/metas/OTAs where they are quite easy to find, contrary to this press release)

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