Priceline.com Announces Fly Now-Drive Later Airfare & Rental Car Promotion

NORWALK, Conn., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) has your transportation needs covered in the air and on the ground.  Today, Priceline announced a limited-time Fly Now-Drive Later promotion.  Between now and May 19, customers who book a flight on priceline.com also will receive a bonus cash coupon worth up to $30 that can be put toward a future priceline.com Name Your Own Price® rental car booking.

Priceline.com customers can book a variety of different types of Priceline airline tickets to qualify for the coupon, including published-price tickets, Name Your Own Price®, one-way and multi-destination tickets.  The promotional coupon offers bonus cash of $3 a day up to a maximum of 10 days.  The offer applies to all rental car types except economy.  Customers will receive their bonus cash coupon 3-5 days after they book their flight.  For full details of the Fly Now-Drive Later promotion, visit http://www.priceline.com/promo/fly_now_drive_later.asp.

"Priceline's Fly Now-Drive Later promotion is a first for Priceline and provides significant savings for the typical priceline.com customer who books a car rental of 4 to 5 days," said Patti D'Angelo, Senior Vice President of priceline.com's rental cars service.  "Priceline customers can already save up to 40% by naming their own price for a rental car.  When you factor in a bonus cash coupon worth $12 to $15, that's a can't-miss opportunity."  

Priceline.com's airline ticketing service www.priceline.com/flights/ delivers the double benefits of a powerful, yet easy to use search tool that finds the best fares for virtually all major airlines, plus a Name Your Own Price® service that can save up to 50% on last-minute airline tickets.  Priceline's Inside Track www.priceline.com/insidetrack includes a Best Days To Fly calendar, a Price Drop e-mail notifier and a special section that shows typical savings, connections and flight times for Priceline's Name Your Own Price® airline ticketing service.  With priceline.com's Name Your Own Price® airline ticketing service, customers choose the dates, airports and price they want to pay for their tickets.  Priceline then works to try to find a major airline willing to accept their offer.

Priceline's rental car service www.priceline.com/rentalcars/ also delivers powerful options for travelers to find a rental at a price that works for them.  Priceline's published-price rental car service shows a grid with comparative rates for all the popular rental car companies.  Vehicles can be rented by the day or week.  Priceline's Name Your Own Price® rental car service enables travelers to save up to 40% over published prices found on other rental car reservation sites.  With Priceline's Name Your Own Price® rental car service, travelers choose their location, dates and pickup times, car type and rate they want to pay.  Priceline then works to try to find a major rental car company willing to accept their offer.

About Priceline.com® Incorporated

Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) www.priceline.com provides online travel services in 32 languages in over 90 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Included in the priceline.com family of companies is Booking.com, a leading international online hotel reservation service, priceline.com, a leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and Agoda.com, an Asian online hotel reservation service.

Priceline.com believes that Booking.com is Europe's largest and fastest growing hotel reservation service, with a network of affiliated Web sites. Booking.com operates in over 76 countries in 25 languages and offers its customers access to approximately 78,000 participating hotels worldwide.

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 great published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using priceline.com's TripFilter advanced search technology, customize their search activity through priceline.com's Inside Track features, 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.com operates the following travel websites: Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com. Priceline.com also licenses its business model to independent licensees.

SOURCE Priceline.com