American Airlines in U.S. District Court of Northern Texas filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Travelport and Orbitz to prevent the distributors from engaging in "exclusionary and anticompetitive business practices. AA claimed that Travelport, "which effectively controls the distribution of fares and other content to a large number of travel agencies and their corporate customers," has unlawfully stymied "new competition by alternative technologies that are both less expensive and more capable." Those retaliations, according to AA's suit, thus far have included a doubling of AA's booking fees for non-U.S. reservations, misrepresenting AA's fares "in a manner that made them appear more expensive than they actually were to consumers outside the United States" and other actions affecting GDS displays.
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