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[WreckWench]

Hey everyone check this out. If you want to save up to 40% off a ticket consider using Priceline to book your ticket. While you can't choose the departure and arrival times...you can choose the dates of travel. They will work to book you on a direct flight and book you on flights that don't have lots of people so more overhead space!

Since we are limited in the flight options to many Caribbean destinations...you may end up with very desirable routings for either 40% off if booking more than 7 days out or up to 60% off if booking within 7 days of travel.

Here is an example for a gal wanting to join our June Belize trip:

I did the following search for air to Belize from Austin and found it to be regularly fared at $953 (5) days from departure.

$953
select American Airlines AUS 11:05a
BZE 4:00p
BZE 2:55p
AUS 11:50p
(4h 50m)1
(6h 50m)1

details
AA.com: $953 cheaptickets.com: $961 orbitz.com: $964

If you use priceline.com you can offer 60% of the price (meaning 40% off retail) and you have a very solid chance of getting it. Plus they will choose the most direct flights first. You just can't choose departure and arrival times.

TODAY I discovered if you book within 7 days of the trip (which this is) you can offer 40% of the price meaning up to 60% of the ticket price is discounted.

So 40% off $953 is $572 (I paid $700 for my ticket)
And 60% off $953 is $381.

The only other drawback is if you bid too low and they don't accept your bid you can't rebid for 3 days. If they accept your bid you must pay for the ticket.

But if you wanted to go and offered say $450 or $400 which would be close to $450 with the taxes and you got it...you'd be able to join us and pay about half of what most of us paid for our air!

[WreckWench]

Another example:

GSP to DFW best fare $909 which happed to be a direct flight. ATL to DFW $471 for non-stop but means a 2+ hour drive, parking etc. And GSP to DFW for 1+stops $741.

Offered $474 on priceline 8 days out as that was about 40% off the lowest GSP/DFW fare I had found with taxes and I got it on the direct non-stop from GSP to DFW. This was a 48% savings off the original flight prices. (if had known it could drop to 60% off would have waited another day but this is how I found out about the 60% off inside 7 days)

So it works...