National among partners of ticket company

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Thursday, May 24, 2001 | 11:02 a.m.

National Airlines of Las Vegas is among four airlines that have signed cooperative agreements with FairAir, which offers what it bills as the first fully transferable airline ticket.

San Francisco-based FairAir, formed in 1999, offers tickets through an Internet site and a toll-free telephone number for flights on Northwest, America West, Midway and National airlines.

Passengers buy tickets through FairAir, then can sell them or change the name of the passenger using the ticket for a fee.

Dik Shimizu, a spokesman for National, called FairAir "a new and different distribution channel," but not one that would ever replace the travel-agent community.