Cheaper Flights?

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria;min-height: 14.0px} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline ; color:#212efa}With more and more airlines beginning to cut the middlemen willthis mean a cheaper ticket or are they just trying to make a biggerprofit?Recently there is a growing trend within the travel industry forairlines to cut out the agency middlemen and sell tickets directlyfrom the site.Other travel sites are up in arms about the fact that theairlines are now hoarding all the flights to themselves and notsharing with the agencies. What people don’t seem to be up inarms about is what is going to happen to the price of flights?Surely if a middleman is cut out and their commission abandonedthis would lead to lower prices? Well we know that airlines arestaffed by magical leprechauns and puppies but I don’t knowhow friendly they are…Puppies have teeth.We have to think that the airlines are a bunch glutinouscapitalists (they wouldn’t own a fleet of planes otherwise)and if they see a profit margin increase then they will not lowertheir prices, they will more than likely line their pockets withit.Even the most eccentric airline owners (Branson) would not turndown cold hard cash for the sake of making his customers a littlebit happy.The latest airline to take this route is American Airlines. Sothe best thing to do would be to conduct an experiment. To seewhether the prices of flightsto Miami drop over the next few months as the airline starts tosave money by cutting out sites such as Expedia and Orbitz.I predict that the results will only yield one result. It is onethat we as the submissive public already know and are willing toaccept. The airlines will not drop their prices and people will bemade to pay the commission that doesn’t exist!