Priceline.com's summer flights sale is on!
With one swift karate chop, William Shatner (aka The Priceline
Negotiator) set priceline.com's sale in motion
today by cutting out booking fees for all domestic and international
flights purchased by July 4th for travel up to
330 days from date of purchase. Every flight and itinerary is on sale,
except for those purchased through priceline.com's
Name Your Own Price® service. That
means that, for the duration of the Summer Flights Sale, priceline.com
customers will pay less for their airline tickets than they would at any
other major online travel reservation service, including Expedia,
Travelocity, Orbitz and Cheap Tickets.
Customers choosing priceline.com for their airline tickets will enjoy
other significant benefits besides no booking fees. In addition to
round-trips on the same airline, priceline.com allows customers to ?mix-and-match?
their flights, choosing one airline and itinerary for the outbound leg
of their trip and another for the return. Combining airlines can improve
itineraries and savings, which is why approximately 20% of priceline.com's
retail tickets now sold include two carriers. Even smaller so-called ?screen-scrapers?
like Kayak and Sidestep only offer this feature with a booking fee
attached. Priceline.com customers also have the ability to easily
package a discounted hotel and/or rental car from priceline.com's
collection of thousands of partner hotels and rental car companies
around the world. Priceline.com's unique Name
Your Own Price® option can save them up
to 50% on hotels and up to 30% on rental cars compared to published
prices found on major online travel reservation services.
To check out priceline.com's Summer Flights
Sale, click (here) or visit http://www.priceline.com/flights/.
?Since this sale is good for last minute and
advance purchase tickets, it will appeal to many different types of
customers,? said Mark Koehler, priceline.com's
Senior Vice President, Airline Ticketing. ?Travelers
can use this sale to lower the cost of their upcoming summer vacation.
They can purchase tickets for a fall getaway once the crowds thin out.
Or, consumers who like planning ahead can buy their Thanksgiving and
Christmas airline tickets now and lock in the additional savings.?
Recently, priceline.com launched a new marketing campaign, titled ?The
Negotiator,? that focuses on priceline.com's
ability to deliver the best deals for its customers. Priceline.com's
airline ticketing service accomplishes that goal in several ways. Using
priceline.com's TripFilter?
advanced search technology, customers can:
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Search easy-to-use grids that compare different airlines, routes,
flight times and prices. The grid can be adjusted to search by price,
trip duration, departure or arrival time.
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Purchase round-trip, one-way or multi-destination tickets.
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Choose economy/coach, business class or first class tickets.
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See sample deals updated daily to more than 60 U.S. destinations and
70 international destinations.
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Search for alternative travel dates and/or alternate airports, which
can increase the chances of finding a great deal.
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Check priceline.com's PriceBreakers
service. PriceBreakers is a free service where specially priced
last-minute deals are hand-picked and displayed while they're
still available.
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Use priceline.com's Name Your Own Price®
airline tickets option and save up to 40% compared to published ticket
prices.*
Priceline.com also has a ?Price Drop?
feature lets customers know when a fare has dropped by at least 15% in
the past week as compared to the average of the lowest fares found on
priceline.com on each of the last 30 days for that same origin and
destination. In addition to browsing price drops on priceline.com's
Web site, customers can register to receive e-mails with price drop and
other air deals from their favorite city. If a fare is getting close to
selling out, priceline.com will post an alert next to the fare.
Priceline.com's Summer Flights Sale applies
only to published-price itineraries where travelers pick their exact
carrier, flight times, routes and price. The sale does not apply to
priceline.com's Name Your Own Price®
service, where consumers already can save up to 40% over the published
prices found on major online travel reservation sites.
* Priceline.com's Name Your Own Price®
service is unique and different from fixed-price travel sites. With
priceline.com's Name Your Own Price®
service, important details about your itinerary are shown only after
purchase.
About Priceline.com® Incorporated
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com, a
leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure
travelers, and Priceline Europe, a leading European online hotel
reservation service.
In the U.S., priceline.com gives customers more ways to save on their
airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises
than any other Internet travel service. In addition to getting the best
published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using
priceline.com's TripFilter?
advanced search technology, create packages to save even more money, and
take advantage of priceline.com's famous Name
Your Own Price® service, which can
deliver the lowest prices available.
Priceline Europe operates one of Europe's
fastest growing hotel reservation services through its Booking.com
network of hotel reservation services, Activehotels.com and
priceline.co.uk. Priceline Europe operates in 54 countries in 15
languages and offers its customers in Europe and the U.S. access to
approximately 34,000 participating European hotels.
Priceline.com also operates the following travel websites:
Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com.
Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that offers home
mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans through an independent
licensee. Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent
licensees, including priceline mortgage and certain international
licensees.
For more information about priceline.com:
To book flights http://www.priceline.com/flights/
To book hotels http://www.priceline.com/hotels/
To book rental cars http://www.priceline.com/rentalcars/
To book a vacation
package http://www.priceline.com/vacationpackages/
To book a cruise http://www.pricelinecruiseoutlet.com
To see our PriceBreakers
deals: http://www.priceline.com/pricebreakers
To check our travel
guides: http://travela.priceline.com/travelguides/
To watch our TV
ads: http://www.priceline.com/promo/shatner_pcln_negotiator.asp
Other priceline.com affiliated sites include:
General travel information and trip planning
http://www.mytravelguide.com
Travel reservations http://www.lowestfare.com
http://www.travelweb.com
Rental cars http://www.RentalCars.com
http://www.BreezeNet.com
European hotels http://www.booking.com
http://www.priceline.co.uk
Priceline.com Incorporated
Press Information:
Brian Ek,
203-299-8167
brian.ek@priceline.com
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