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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