American Airlines Trying to Send Site Traffic Soaring

If you’re having a hard time finding tickets for a flight on American, it’s because the airline is butting heads with online ticketing sites Expedia and Orbitz.

According to the Seattle Times, there’s a contract dispute between American Airlines and these websites that could turn the tables and make it so that “ticket-selling companies would pay American to supply the inventory,” a situation that was once a dream to American’s CEO Gerard Arpey, the story says.

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