American Airlines Inc. said Wednesday it is booking more tickets now than at this time previous year despite having its fares removed from one major online travel agency and made harder to find on a second.
Orbitz.com stopped selling tickets on the Fort Worth-based carrier Dec. 21 after the two failed to reach terms on a latest distribution agreement. Two days later, Expedia.com changed its search results to give American's flights less prominence when customers hunted for fares.
Nevertheless, the carrier said it has seen a raise in bookings from its own website, aa.com, and from other online travel agencies such as Priceline.com and "metasearch" online travel agencies such as Kayak.com that hunt across a variety of search sites to compile fare results.
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