Biztravel?

I use it as a validator that I'm getting the better deal... elsewhere.

Prices are consistently the highest among airline sites and independent competitors for airfares, car rentals, and hotel rooms.

The interface requires all sorts of convolutions to get something as simple as a fare quote - you've got to name an itinerary, indicate whether it's a business, personal, or both business-and-personal trip; you have to check the "I need a car"/"I need a hotel" box even when you're already in the car/hotel link; that javascript window is outdated, slow, and another thing to hang or otherwise go wrong; etc. You know what I'm talking about.

Availability of flights, cars, and rooms is, by comparison with other sites, severely limited.

The Guarantee - or "Air Lotto," as I call it - is of little value to me, since when I go by air, adherence to schedule is crucial. Want to make money? Get to your business meetings on time and close the deals. That's how you make real money.

Recent talk of Biztravel came up in at least one other forum here at FlyerTalk. Do a search, and you'll see many opinions and a few others which echo what I've stated here.

I used Biztravel with some regularity about a year or two ago. In fact, their flight paging feature saved my ... one morning in waking me up 30 minutes before a flight departure. I amazingly made that flight - even after parking and shuttling over from long term parking. So I am not without gratitude to Biztravel.

But flight paging is everywhere now, and better plans at better prices can be found elsewhere.

In business as in sports, today's headlines are tomorrow's toilet paper.

Since it sounds like you're a loyal OnePass'er, in case you don't know (I didn't until last week, thanks to FlyerTalk), doing your bookings via Continental directly (not CO.O.L.) gets you a 50% mileage bonus on the base miles you fly on the itineraries booked through this mode, which can be substantially more than the 1,000 miles bonus from doing e-ticket online/CO.O.L (which itself is not too bad - but always compare - Travelocity is a suggestion). Of course, you need to be Elite for this 50% bonus to kick in, which it does automatically.

(Do you work for Biztravel? I have to ask - no offense to your person - are you disguising advertising/spam for Biztravel as an inquiry, trying to draw attention to it? It seems lately many are seemingly doing this).

[This message has been edited by FQTV (edited 07-20-2000).]