One of the most important things you should check when you start your research of cheap flights is to go to the bidding places. If they can't offer a cheaper flight, probably nobody will. I normally recommend to go to SkyAuction because discounts are bigger and it can be used from a shopping mall where buying your flights will automatically give you a 4-stars hotel for an 80% discount. You will find the detailed information on that below.
In any case, providing that Priceline is one of the most famous places in America where to bid for flights, I think it is a good idea to provide with some insight on how to bid there.
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There are some ways in which you can nearly make sure about the price that a product in Priceline will have, but first of all let's say a few words about this web-page.
Instead of letting all user to fight for a flight or a hotel by bidding all at once, Priceline offers the possibility to play relatively alone. Airlines give them discounted tickets to sell, and they give them out to the first user that bids equal or above the minimum price they can sell them for to get a benefit. If continuous bidding was allowed, we could make constant bidding and get to know the price very quickly, but there is a 72 hours rule that avoids you from bidding. There are ways to avoid this rule, but this is explained in another of my articles.
Whatever system we use, the only and most important we need to know is that we must stay informed. Bidding with no information can guide us to bid under the price, which is bad because it brings us out of the game. But at same time, the possibility of bidding too high and paying more for a flight that we could have got for less... That feels even worst!
Naturally, the first thing to do will be to check Qixo. It brings together all the main search engines in one single operation. Once you have the minimum price Qixo finds, then you have a good place to start. Check also the airline and their hot deals, find out if they have anything specially discounted covering your route.
Once you have done this little basic research, there is a magical place where you can get to know for how much flights in Priceline have been accepted recently. It is basically a forum where all users post there the prices that Priceline has accepted, in a way that everybody can take a look and then make an informed bid on it.
The forum is organized in many sectors, for flights, for holidays packages, hotels, etc. Simply get to the section that you are looking for and try to find between all the posts if somebody has posted about your flight. Not always will happen but the blog is becoming famous and everyday there is more information there, so it is really worth to spend some time and learn from the results of other people.
As a last recommendation for you, I advice to do not exit the page once you have found a number. If somebody says in a post that they have accepted a flight for 0, this means that the price can be 0 but almost probably will be lower than this. Keep searching until you find the lowest bid somebody has made for your flight, or you will simply commit the same mistake as the other person did.
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