Webjet Australia has issued a press statement (reproduced below), responding to the joint venture partnership between Expedia and AirAsia, questioning 'does the world's largest online travel company sell AIR or only AirAsia? Has selling flights gotten too hard?'

With last weeks announcement of the Asian joint venture between Expedia and Air Asia, with exclusive access to Air Asia content, one has to wonder if Expedia will now only sell Air Asia?

And where does that leave the other airlines that consumers want to purchase? Will those airlines want to provide their best content to a website that has an obvious preference to one carrier?

In comparison, Webjet is not only selling Air Asia throughout Asia Pacific - but we are completely agnostic when it comes to providing consumers the broadest and most robust range of travel options in all of our geographic locations.

Commenting on the announcement of the AirAsia/Expedia joint venture, John Guscic, Webjet's Managing Director, states, "And if the announcement regarding Expedia's plan in Asia wasn't confusing enough, in Australia and New Zealand, Expedia appears to be pulling out of the sale of air tickets to sell pastrami sandwiches in New York. Maybe bagels will follow?

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