another one is 1 800 FLY 4LESS.  i don't think it's as good as priceline.com
but yu don't have to bid, yu just phone em up.  don't try them without a
phone with redial tho!
----- Original Message -----
From: Dorothy Ivankoe <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: re travel


> In a message dated 6/14/99 1:22:19 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Dorothy, what is Priceline and how does one contact them? Nita >>
>
> Priceline is an auction website.  It can be accessed thru
"www.priceline.com"
> We had to go to a funeral on the east coast last fall.  The cheapest
> bereavement fare was more than $800 each.  I placed a bid for $225 each
which
> they accepted.  The regular last minute fare would have been about $1600
each
> thru numerous airlines..
>
> Hopefully this will explain how it works.  When someone makes a bid thru
the
> Priceline web site for an air fare, Priceline in turn sends it out to
various
> airlines.   If an airline has unsold seats for that particular route, they
> often accept the bid rather than keep the unsold seats.  Priceline will
then
> notify you within a couple of hours whether or not your bid has been
> accepted.
>
> Some of the stipulations are if you make a bid for a certain date and it
is
> not accepted, you cannot make a higher bid for the same date.  You also
can't
> say what airline you want to use and rather than a nonstop flight which we
> normally would have gotten, we had to change planes (it's well worth it to
> save that much money).  You also can't say what time you want to depart
but
> they do guarantee that you will arrive no later than a certain hour (in
other
> words, they don't put you on a "red eye" from the west coast to the east).
> They also do not give frequent flyer miles and they allow NO changes once
you
> confirm your flight.
>
> Even with all of that, I like it for certain instances.  We're going east
in
> July but I won't use them because of the "no cancellation" clause but will
> use senior coupons instead.
>
> They have been on an advertising blitz the last couple of months and
> published lots of pictures in national newspapers and magazines of people
who
> have used it.  (I finally made the paper a couple of weeks ago.)
>
> Hope this helps -- their web  site has a much better explanation.  They
are
> also taking bids for hotels (which I might try for July) and will be doing
> cruises I believe in the fall.
>
> Dorothy CG Roy 68/44/42