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www.traveltechnology association.org March 18, 2013

Electronically Submitted

Secretary Ray LaHood

United States Department of Transportation

1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.

Washington D.C. 20590

Re: In the Matter of Agreement Ad opted by the Passenger Services

Conference of the International Air Transport Association as

Resolution 787; Docket No. OST-2013-0048

Secretary LaHood:

The Travel Technology Association 1 hereby joins the concerns raised by

Open Allies for Airfare Transpare ncy about the substance of the International Air

Transport Association (“IATA)’s March 11 th Application (Docket No. OST-2013-

0048) with respect to approval of Resolution 787.

Travel Tech believes that Resolution 787 is more than the mere approval of

standards as the Application claims and Travel Tech therefore e ncourages the

Department of Transportation to look carefully at all relevant IATA documents

before determining the adequ acy of the Application.

Accordingly, and for the reasons set forth in greater detail in the Open Allies

Motion, Travel Tech respectfully requests that the Department i ssue an order

requiring IATA and its members t o submit all documents in their possession that

relate or refer to Resolution 78 7 and NDC for consideration, an d that the

Department establish a procedura l schedule only after such docu ments have been

submitted and considered.

1 The Travel Technology Associat ion, or Travel Tech, is the ass ociation for

online travel companies (OTCs) an d global distribution systems (GDSs), and is

dedicated to connecting consumer s and travel providers, elimina ting barriers to

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A copy of the Travel Technology Associaiton letter was ser ved on the 18 th day of

March by first class or priority mail on the following persons:

Douglas Lavin

Regional Vice President

– North America

International Air Transport As sociation

1201 F Street, NW, Suite 650

Washington, DC 20004 Bert W. Rein

Bruce L. McDonald

Wiley Rein LLP

1776 K Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006

Chief, Transportation, Energy &

Agriculture Section

Antitrust Division

Department of Justice

Washington, DC 20530 David Radcliff

Chief Executive Officer

Hogg Robinson Group

16 E. 34 th Street, 3 rd Floor

New York, NY 10016

Paul Ruden

Senior Vice President of Legal and

Industry Affairs

American Society of Travel Agents

1101 King Street, Suite 200

Alexandri a, VA 22314 Pat Funk

Executive Director

Association of Retail Travel Agents

4320 North Miller Road

Scottsdale, AZ 85251

- 3606

Eric Bock

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal

Officer and Chief Administrative Officer

Travelport

300 Galleria Parkway

Atla nta, GA 30339 Grey Webb

President

Sabre Travel Network

3150 Sabre Drive

Southlake, TX 76092

Scott Gutz

President and Chief Executive Officer

Amadeus North America, Inc.

3470 NW 82 nd Avenue, Suite 1000

Miami, FL 33122 Barney Harford

Chief Executive O fficer

Orbitz Worldwide Inc.

500 W. Madison St., Suite 1000

Chicago, IL 50551

Dara Khorsrowshahi

President/CEO

Expedia, Inc.

333 108 th Avenue, NE

Bellevue, WA 98004 Robert L. Darbelnet

CEO/President

AAA Travel (AAA Inc.)

1000 AAA Drive

Heathrow, FL 32746. Douglas Anderson

President/CEO

Carlson Wagonlit Travel

701 Carlson Parkway

Minneapolis, MN 55305 Sam Jain

CEO/Chairman

Travelong Inc.

212 W. 35 th St., Suite 1302

New York, NY 10001

Jeffery H. Boyd

President/CEO

Priceline.com

800 Connectic ut Avenue

Norwalk, CT 06854 Michael Batt

Chairman/Founder

Travel Leaders Group

3033 Campus Drive, Suite W320

Joop Drechsel

Chief Executive Officer

BCD Travel

6 Concourse Parkway, Suite 2400

Atlanta, GA 30328 Norman Knowles

Group VP

Loyalty Travel Age ncy

6442 City West Parkway

Eden Prairie, MN 55344

Dean Smith

President

FC USA

69 Spring St.

Ramsey, NJ 07446 Bryan Leibman

President/CEO

FROSCH

1 Greenway Plaza, Suite 800

Houston, TX 77046

William H. Tech

CEO/President

Travel and Transport Inc.

2120 S. 72 nd Street

Omaha, NE 68124 Priscilla Alexander

President

Protravel International Inc.

515 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Alexandre Chemla

President

Altour International Inc.

1270 Avenue of the Americas, 15 th FLOOR

New York, NY 10020 Bra d Tolkin/Jeff Tolkin

Co

- Chairman/CEO

World Travel Holdings

100 Fordham Road

Wilmington, MA 01887

Peter Liney

Chief Executive Officer

STA Travel

750 State Highway 121, Suite 250

Louisville, TX 75067 James E. Wells

Chief Executive Officer

World Travel Inc.

1724 West Schuylkill Road

Douglassville, PA 19518. Gloria Rohan

CEO/President

Omega World Travel

3100 Omega Office Park

Fairfax, VA 22031 Tammy Krings

CEO/Leadership Coach

TS24

7775 Walton Parkway

New Albany, OH 4304

Paul Metselaar

Chairma n/CEO

Ovation ravel Group

71 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10003 Yoshimori Himeno

President

JTB

19700 Mariner Avenue

Torrance, CA 90503

Jeff Smith

President

Travizon Inc.

275 Mishawum Road, Suite 300

Woburn, MA 01801 Lisa Durocher

SVP/General Manager

Am erican Express

World Financial Center

200 Vesey Street

New York, NY 10285

Patrick Fragale

President/COO

Directravel

860 Wyckoff Avenue

Mahwah, NJ 07430 Jonathan Perkel

Senior VP, General Counsel

Travelocity

3150 Sabre Drive

Southlake, TX 76092

Davi d Kelly

Executive Director

Open Allies for Airfare Transparency

439 New Jersey Ave, SE

Washington, DC 20003

______________________ Robin Reck