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Soon after, American approached Expedia with a similar request to ditch third party distribution, but Expedia refused, taking the airline's tickets off its site. Expedia acted first, because it saw the carrier's new approach as harmful to the culture of price comparison that booking and price comparison sites have fostered.
Would-be fliers were worried that this would lead to an increase in prices. Critics of American Airline's desire to use in-house technology for all booking say that the airline is trying to avoid competition and wants to avoid being seen as more expensive that other air carriers because of it's a la carte pricing model.
The airline went as far as suing Sabre Holdings, the giant travel tech firm that is the parent company of Travelocity, to keep them from listing the airline's prices in a way that would make them seem more expensive that competing airlines. AA won a temporary order that keeps Sabre from listing the fares in this way – a bit ironic, considering that Sabre was originally part of American before becoming its own company in 2000.
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