Note: When going through Priceline, you don t earn miles, your status doesn t count, you have no ide

Note: When going through Priceline, you don t earn miles, your status doesn t count, you have no idea when you re going to depart and how long your layovers are, and (most troublesome for me) you re low priority for rebooking your flight if anything goes wrong.
She determined a $300 per person savings or more would be worth it, which gave us $1200 for two one-way tickets, roughly ~$600 each way to start figuring out a bidding strategy. So if she got one leg for cheaper, she d have more to spend on the other one. Then it hit us. What if she won one ticket but couldn t Priceline the other?
She might wind up paying a heck of a lot more if she had to buy a one way directly from an airline. That changed her maximum bid dramatically. We looked up the cheapest one-way fares for each leg, as that would determine what was the most she could bid on the other. The outbound was coming up the cheapest $750 to purchase if she couldn t get it by bidding.
So the next step was to figure cheap tickets flight hotel rental car out how we could get free rebids, essentially avoiding cheap tickets flight hotel rental car Priceline cheap tickets flight hotel rental car s one bid per 24 hours constraint without having to add other airports or dates she didn t want. I found the perfect approach from PortlandTravelTrips  who recently did a series on Pricelining techniques.
For flights, his workaround cheap tickets flight hotel rental car is to enter cities rather than specific airports. And since most major airports have at least a dozen cities around them, you have nearly limitless options. Better yet, I discovered you only have to enter in a city in one of the fields to get by the 24 hour rule!
So we started, arbitrarily, at $350 using Fairfax, VA as our destination. No luck. We then raised our bid $25 each time using Sterling, Arlington, Alexandria, and Dulles to let us tag the same airports.
Not surprisingly there were no bites since the bid also included all taxes and airline fees. But at least she had tried everything possible to save money before spending the $1500. I m just glad we  realized she might only win a ticket for one direction before we started bidding!
I used to use Priceline a lot in college. My boyfriend lived in Boston and I was in Philly. I would basically think I m willing cheap tickets flight hotel rental car to travel for X amount cheap tickets flight hotel rental car and try that bid with upcoming weekends. When it worked, I visited!
cheap tickets flight hotel rental car I d be interested to read if PriceLine bidding EVER still results in a significant discount on airfare. We continue to use it for cars and hotels, but somehow for the past 8 or more years don t even bother to try it for airfare.
With inventory being so full it is hard to maximize savings on flights cheap tickets flight hotel rental car using Priceline. On popular routes it will be near impossible. The Great Recession caused airlines to get real good at filling their seats, thus less supply to bid on and less savings to be had.
Have used Priceline a couple of times for cars, worked out ok, but found it took a lot of bidding and time to finally get what you wanted. I ve never tried it on flights. Thanks for sharing the info!