“The aggregation of content is critical to the continued success of the travel distribution system.”

“DOT needs to issue a rule that finally restores for consumers comparison shopping and purchasing of the true cost of air travel options (base fares and ancillary services fees) that has been lost since airline product unbundling accelerated in 2008.”

“We need these fees as part of our booking process. I work two extra hours a day because of this problem.”

“No matter what channel you choose to book your flight, you should have immediate access to ALL fees, so you can calculate the total bottom-line cost of your fare.”

“We are very happy with the GDS platform. I think you are being given the impression that the GDS is broken. It works.”

“The airline industry must provide consumers, working through every channel in which the airlines have elected to distribute their fares, with full transparency of all mandatory and optional charges of consequence and with the ability to buy those optional services.”

“What makes the behavior of the airlines even more exasperating for families is the failure to provide an ‘all-in’ (fares, taxes and fees) upfront.”

“The predictability of air travel has really gone away. This (preferred seating fee) is one more layer where people can’t predict what’s going to happen — it’s a crap shoot.”

“If these European governments, through combined efforts to tax air travel, suppress demand by 1 percent until 2030, that will be 6.5 million less jobs in Asia Pacific. That is unacceptable economically and morally.”

“Western governments don’t get it about aviation and travel. They are in their jobs to create jobs, and their policies destroy job opportunities.”

The E.U. Emissions Trading System violates every accepted norm of international law.

Aviation’s future depends on success at environmental sustainability as much as safety.

Transparency is “good for them [the airlines] because the consumer isn’t surprised later on.”

“What we are trying to do is to make sure when people go online and they look at what it costs for a ticket to fly, that they see all of the different charges and fees that they are going to be paying.”

“Anything that diminishes access to content – fare information – is not good for the travel industry. Anything that diminishes access by consumers to multiple airline choices in the long run is going to raise prices.”

“The GDS environment is the most cost-efficient and effective model available for managing corporate travel. Any system that fragments content introduces unnecessary inefficiencies that cannot benefit corporate customers.”

“Business travel buyers will ultimately foot the bill for marketplace fragmentation caused by airline initiatives that push the travel distribution marketplace in the wrong direction – away from transparency and competitiveness and toward confusion and higher costs.”

“When more airlines compete, consumers win – with lower fares and better service.”