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Priceline Lists Best Days To Fly For The Holidays
By Brian Ek, On 11/12/09 1:53 PM
Tags: blog index, christmas, holiday airfares, holiday airline ticket prices, priceline, priceline.com, thanksgiving
Still looking for an airline ticket home for the holidays?  Allow me to help. Airfares have started to creep up.  Two reasons for that - there are fewer seats flying this year and holiday demand is starting to peak.  The average fare for Thanksgiving as of last week was $387 - that's 12% higher than what you would have paid a year ago. Same thing for the December...
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Holiday airfares remain stable for week of November 2
By Brian Ek, On 11/2/09 2:56 PM
Tags: airfare index, blog index, christmas airfare, holiday airfares, priceline, priceline airfare index, thanksgiving airfare
  Let's start with the good news.  The national average airfare for Thanksgiving and December holiday travel stablized going into this week.  The average Thanksgiving airfare this week is $389 compared to $384 a week ago.  For the December holidays, the average airfare is now $427 compared to $430 a week ago. On an itinerary-specific basis, some routes saw pretty hefty fare...
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Priceline iPhone App (Video)
By Keith Lopez, On 10/29/09 1:58 PM

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Free Hotel Negotiator iPhone App now available
By Brian Ek, On 10/28/09 11:07 AM
Tags: app store, apple, blog index, free travel apps, hotel negotiator, iphone, ipod touch, itunes, priceline, priceline app
  Here's something that's fun and money-saving.  The new Hotel Negotiator App is now available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/ .  The new Priceline app is already one of the top 5 free travel downloads at the App Store. The Hotel Negotiator App lets you quickly find and book last-minute hotel rooms using...
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Thanksgiving & Christmas airfares continue to climb
By Brian Ek, On 10/27/09 4:47 PM
Tags: airfare index, blog index, christmas, hanukkah, kwanzaa, priceline, thanksgiving
Airfares for Thanksgiving and the December holidays continue to inch upward as the holidays come more into focus. The average Thanksgiving airfare, based on bookings made by priceline.com customers, increased this week to $384, from $372 a week ago.  Meanwhile, the average airfare for the December holidays, which dropped last week, reversed direction and climbed from $421 to $430. ...
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Thanksgiving airfares inch up while Christmas fares drop
By Brian Ek, On 10/20/09 3:03 PM
Tags: blog index, christmas, holiday airfare, priceline, thanksgiving, travel ekspert
  Last week, The Travel Ekspert reported that holiday airfares for Thanksgiving and the end-of-year holidays were running about 10% less than last year.  At the time, the average Thanksgiving airfare was $361 and the average December holiday airfare was $440. I've decided to run a weekly spot check to see what's happening with holiday fares in general, and report what holiday routes...
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Q&A with Richard Sasso, CEO of MSC Cruises
By Brian Ek, On 10/15/09 10:02 AM
How does a cruise stack up, value-wise, to other vacations?  How is the cruise industry adapting to today's vacationing consumer?  And what can we look forward to in the cruise industry for the coming year? The Travel Ekspert had the opportunity to pose these and other questions to Richard E. Sasso, President and Chief Executive Officer of MSC Cruises USA), Inc.  I chose...
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Thanksgiving airfares $80 cheaper than Christmas
By Brian Ek, On 10/13/09 9:25 AM
Tags: blog index, christmas airfares, priceline, thansgiving airfares, travel ekspert, turkey trumps santa
Yes, indeed, the turkey definitely trumps Santa this holiday season.   If your budget won't let you fly home for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, then you're better off spending Turkey Day with the folks. Based on holiday airfares booked by priceline.com customers between July 1 and October 1, 2009, we found that the average Thanksgiving airfare this year is $361...
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Hiking The Grand Canyon from rim to rim
By Mark Koehler, On 10/12/09 1:31 PM
Tags: blog index, grand canyon, grand canyon hike, priceline, rim to rim hiking, travelguides
  Travel Ekspert's Note : Mark Koehler is Senior Vice President of priceline.com’s Airline Ticketing Service group.   Of all the visitors to the Grand Canyon, only 1% to 3% actually hike down into the canyon. The majority of those hikers descend less than 1,000 feet. What awaits the minority who do make the trek all the way to bottom of the canyon is a view...
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Plenty of turbulence in New York City area airfares this week
By Brian Ek, On 10/12/09 11:34 AM
Tags: airfare deals, airfare index, airline tickets, blog index, priceline
  Travelers looking for bargains in New York-area airfares this week will find that it all depends on where they're going. Fares from New York City and Newark to Atlanta, San Francisco, New Orleans and Miami are down 6% to 8% compared to last week.  On the flip side, trying flying from those same airports to Los Angeles, Raleigh, Charlotte, Houston and Chicago, and you'll pay 9% to...
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