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Just purchased a ticket for my wingman at priceline and it was only $460 round trip for NOvember 12 thru 20. That's $136 cheaper than the ticket I purchased last week. I don't know if that's a good price, but it seems to be the cheapest price I've seen so far.

CR is Heaven!!

Priceline is cool, but the problem is that you have no control over the airline (not that it matters), the times (not that it matters), the stop-over city (not that it matters), and total travel time (this actually matters to me). I don't want a 19 hour trip when it can take 5.

-Orange

Aw come on Orange.. An extra day of vacation, a bottle of valium and an i-pod loaded with Grateful Dead… you’re just in to much of a hurry.

Good observation of Priceline… Been there, done that… Never again.

Orange-
you are right about the "name your own price" uncontrolability (is this a word) factor, but I consistently find my best deals on the fares, times, airlines on the Priceline search out of DTW. Probably 80 % of the time. November trip for 15 days is $462 minus a $75 voucher from AA for delays in Sept. flight, for an under $400 total. Cheapest was $360 last Oct
Ahora, mas colones para centenario y chicas

Traylor Park writes:


$460 is not a price to get excited about from Chicago. If you booked on Continental right now you could go on the same dates for $447 R/T. And because you didn't use a blind bucket shop like priceline you would have a choice or departure times and transfer cities.

And let's not forget about frequent flyer miles. If you booked on Continental you would earn over 5,000 frequent flyer miles, plus a bonus of 1,500 miles if you bought your ticket and checked in online. After 4 such trips you'd have enough miles for a free R/T domestic ticket. After 5 such trips (same calendar year, you would earn enough "elite qualifying miles" to be Silver elite. At that elite level future trips (for the rest of that year, the next year, and two months into the following year) would earn a 50% mileage bonus and you would be able to upgrade to first class (on a space available basis) in most of the americas including Costa Rica.

For the upper elite level (75K miles in 1 year) you earn a 125% bonus and you can upgrade a "companion" in addition to yourself. There are other bonuses at that level but those are the big ones. Once your there, for the price of 3 coach tickets you would fly first class and earn 42,000 more miles (you only need 35K for a free ticket to Costa Rica).

With priceline you don't earn any miles.

I flew American on my last trip to CR ,when I got back , checked my advantage miles, it shows 25000, and if I book CR again, it comes out $25includes taxes and fees , does that make sense? I don't know

Last ticket I booked was through American's site so I got all the bonus miles but I also checked Priceline, and Priceline was cheaper, American beat their price and then gave me a $50 voucher from their best fare policy.

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