What about paying with cash, and later sending in the bording stubs for FF credit? How are the airlines going to overcome this? John/PWT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travel Pages" <travelpages@yahoo.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Travel Weekly -- United moves to stem back-to-back ticketing <<Sharing with the competition won't happen in our lifetimes - besides which it is probably illegal....US airlines are wary of the trust busters....>> I'm aware of the internal firewalls. Market share and ARC data is currently available to all carriers who want to pay for it. Right now, AA knows what % of lift UA gets in whichever markets they choose to target, and from which ticketing sources. All they need to do is agree to hand the data off to a third party. And PNR information sharing is a hot topic, particularly in Europe. I believe Amadeus found itself in The Hague on just this point several months ago. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup