When Google’s vice president of travel, Jeremy Wertheimer, stepped on stage at the PhoCusWright conference here two weeks ago, he surprised many in the audience with his explanation as to why Google’s Flight Search results do not include links to online travel agencies.
If they did, Wertheimer said, the airlines would not participate.
“The airlines said, ‘We will not give you content if you provide booking links to OTAs,’” Wertheimer told the audience.
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