Comments on: American Flights are Back on Kayak

By: Flight Metasearch – Show me the Money!

Flight Metasearch – Show me the Money! — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:26:13 +0000

[...] airlines feel entitled to the bookings originating from metasearch engines (as evidenced by the AA/Kayak dispute last year). Worse, airlines are not profitable, so getting them to write checks is no small [...]

By: PeterGreenberg.com » American & the Internet: What's An Airline to Do?

PeterGreenberg.com » American & the Internet: What's An Airline to Do? — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:01 +0000

[...] links: Cranky Flier, Newsweek, Flight Global, Wall Street Journal, Motley Fool, Associated [...]

By: PeterGreenberg.com » American & the Internet: What's An Airline to Do?

PeterGreenberg.com » American & the Internet: What's An Airline to Do? — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:01 +0000

[...] links: Cranky Flier, Newsweek, Flight Global, Wall Street Journal, Motley Fool, Associated [...]

By: rrgg

rrgg — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:14:13 +0000

In other words, Kayak had decided the deal they had agreed to no longer suited them. Now they decided it does. Nothing changed.

I don’t see that as AA “won the battle.” It’s more like Kayak’s temper tantrum is over.

By: CF

CF — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:09:32 +0000

Good question. I’m poked around a little, and I haven’t seen any multiple carrier itineraries showing up. So it appears that no AA flights will show up via Orbitz even though AA can’t sell those multiple carrier itineraries itself.

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:45:32 +0000

I wonder what happens under different scenarios, like if the round trip is setup as two one ways on different airlines and one of them is AA?

I also wonder what happens if Orbitz for some reason has it cheaper than AA? Still hidden then or would it be just the AA.com listing?