Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it has extended its Summer Flights Sale through Labor Day (September 3, 2007). While the sale is on, priceline.com customers pay no booking fees for published-price airline tickets purchased for travel up to 330 days from date of purchase.
Every flight and itinerary is on sale, except those purchased through priceline.com’s Name Your Own Price® service. That means that, in most cases, priceline.com customers will pay less for their tickets than they would at other major online travel reservation services, including Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and Cheap Tickets.
To check out the Summer Flights Sale, visit http://www.priceline.com/flights/.
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, also without a booking fee. Combining airlines can improve itineraries and savings, which is why approximately 20% of priceline.com’s retail tickets now sold include two carriers. When these types of tickets are sold through other online travel reservation agencies, or via comparison shopping site referrals, customers typically pay a booking fee.
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, up to 40% on airline tickets and up to 30% on rental cars compared to published prices. 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.comhttp://www.travelweb.com Rental cars http://www.RentalCars.comhttp://www.BreezeNet.com European hotels http://www.booking.comhttp://www.priceline.co.uk