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Amendment 5 deals with the interesting question, which has not been raised in the debate so far, of what I am calling travel intermediaries. By this I mean travel agents and package operators and so on, who are doing their best in a highly competitive market to put together packages, services and flights for their customers, but do not necessarily have any guaranteed access to the best prices that the airlines are offering. It may be the case that the airlines are holding back tickets for their own passengers, which are cheaper than those that they are making available more broadly.