Before toll-free telephone numbers and the Internet were used as commercial tools, fliers usually purchased airline tickets from travel agents.  Travel agents no longer receive a commission from the airlines for selling tickets to consumers.  This is an example of:

A. reintermediation
B. disassociation
C. disintermediation
D. discrimination
E. transference


Answer: C

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