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	New Cheap Ticket Site	1		2001/07/05, 10:00 pm
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Any info on cheap airfare or success using priceline?

Was able to get 510 RT from Denver though the united webpage

denverbob1@yahoo.com

I got a ticket for $250.00 on Priceline from Miami last summer, but I actually had to fly to Atlanta (Delta) to connect. Still a great price though.

La Muerte

I got a RT to CR for 466 incl tax from Priceline. BWI to IAH (Houston) then to SJO. Also heard www.intratours.com might be a good one to try for airfares.

550 from Milwaukee R/T to CR for March 2002.
hobbittravel.com

Check out www.hotwire.com or www.orbitz.com
Both gave me discounts of 35% over what a travel agent could get me.

www.orbitz.com sometimes has a special webfare price. The average low season price for Miami to San Jose is 380 from Lacsa, but sometimes on the list of available flights, a little icon will say WEBFARE or something similar. The lowest for this was 343 from Miami to San Jose round trip. I believe the only way is to buy it online to get this price and the carrier was American Airlines!

American has a special round trip fare from Miami to San Jose $219 on their website if you leave 8/30 and return by 9/4, or some such dates.

Any of you dudes ever tried Price Line (http://www.priceline.com/)? I'm tempted to give it a go. Does it work?

The scuttlebutt on priceline.com is that you may save %20 or so from the list price of the ticket, but you may get a lousy itinery with multi-hour layovers, bad departure and arrival times, and no frequent flyer miles.

I used priceline once. It worked out well for me for last minute travel. I went from Dallas to Nashville and paid I think $160 or so. Expedia and Travelocity were quoting over $500 for last minute. My biggest problem with priceline is you have to pay for it before you even know what time the departure is.
Last week I booked a flight for my mother on hotwire.com. It cost only $181 for roundtrip between Providence, Rhode Island and LAX. But she did have a 2 week notice.

I have made six trips to T.J. from Asheville, North Carolina over the past 15 months and have never paid over $275 round trip, and that was only once. My other fares were between $246 and $262. I usually purchase a couple of weeks ahead, but once I decided to go at the last moment, and I purchased the tickest two days ahead of time. Cheaptickets and travelocity had the cheapest fare at $1,700 and I paid $252. Even though they say that you can't fly standby when you purchase from them, I have been able to fly standby on four seperate occassions when they booked me on an afternoon flight, and I wanted to leave in the a.m. I would not even think about buying a ticket from anyone else other than priceline. My main fear is that with their financial problems, they will go out of business, and I will be forced to pay full-fare.

American runs a number of weekend specials on their website that include travel on the next two weekends. You could fly this weekend for example if you had booked Thursday. The web site is tricky but work your way to "all the special flights".
americanair.com
There are some really good deals.

Avltourist: Guess I should have picked up from your handle where you are (AVL) but I missed it. I lived in that area (Arden) for 4 years in the 80's and sure miss the mountains. Always said I'd retire there but after living in SoCal for past 10 yrs., it would be just too hard to give up this weather (plus the proximity to the REAL Disneyland...Zona Norte).

694me: All the major airlines generally offer web and last minute weekend specials on their sites. You can subscribe to e-mail notices each week of the discounted cities at each airline's website.

Copied from general discussion area:

American and Delta's base fares from Chicago are around $380 right now (after all taxes/surcharges/fees less than $435 R/T). Very good deal, but if you want to get creative here's the best way to get there.
Join Continental One Pass (Continental's frequent Flyer Program) for free and then buy a privilege pack, these cost either about $65 or $100, but get the $100 one (more miles and upgrade coupons) (you can only purchase these "privilege packs" during your first year in the program). The packet will give you 6 free 1-segment space available upgrade coupons, a $99 companion fare coupon, another coupon for up to $100 off a future flight, 7,500 one pass miles and a bunch of other stuff that's less important (President club passes, hotel and car rental discounts).

Now all you need to do is fly once cross country, maybe with a transfer in Houston to accrue at least 4,000 miles. Base fares for most of these flights are $178 R/T. Since you've signed up for their double miles promotion you'll accrue 8,000 miles plus an additional 1000 for purchasing the ticket online and 1,000 for agreeing to get your statements online, you'll end up with 10,000 miles. Add the 7,500 from the privilege pack and you now have 17,500.

Right now, thru 11/15 Continental is running a 1/2 miles reward promotion to select cities in Latin America including San Jose Costa Rica, so instead of 35,000 miles, it only takes 17,500 for a free ticket.

To sum up, for less than $300 you can fly first class coast to coast (perhaps to Vegas or maybe San Diego/Tijuana) and get a free first class ticket to San Jose Costa Rica. Didn't I mention those 6 1-segment space available upgrade coupons are available for the US/Canada/ and Latin America.

Caveat: you'll have to ask fast, Continental says to allow 4-6 weeks to get your privilege pack in the mail, however I got mine in less than 2 weeks and so did my friend. Also seats are limited to SJO for this promotion, however I think there are probably quite a few left due to the 9/11 tragedy.

Good luck

Signup free travelocity.com set up fare watcher for 5 destinations RT 302.90 including all taxs Chicago to San Jose CR. Delta chi town to atlanta to SJO.