Phoenix (PHX) --> Cincinnati (CVG) Delta

[Mugshot]

I'm in awe of Priceline right now...I know it doesn't always work this well, but I'm feeling pretty great about this deal. Had been considering flying from Phoenix to Cincinnati, and nonstop round-trip tickets were around $290. But by the time I was ready to pull the trigger on the flight, the cheapest tickets were $623, with long connections. The nonstop tickets had jumped to $798.

So I tried Priceline airfare for the first time. Not too hopeful, I put in a starting bid of $225 (ends up being $252 with fees), and won the nonstop tickets on the first try. I had a feeling these airlines bump the prices of tickets dramatically the week before flights just because they can, but I didn't think it would be this easy to skirt the price hikes and get a reasonably priced ticket this late.

This is only a modest 14% discount over the previous price of the airfare, but it's a 68% discount over the current price of these specific nonstop tickets (which I really did want badly), and a 59% discount from the cheapest available tickets of any kind for these dates.

The only thing that bothers me is that I probably could have bid even lower, but I guess I shouldn't complain when I just saved several hundred dollars...

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your success!

This is a HUGE win and i think you should be quite pleased. It doesn't matter what the price used to be (might as well be considering prices for dates entirely different then your own in that case) as you have to focus on what is at this time, and in this instance this is an amazing deal, imo.

With the non-stop flights sounds like this couldn't have worked out too much better.

Thank you for sharing your win with the board and have a great trip.

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