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Travel Search Engines are going all out to acquire our business. I posted recently about the Priceline Negotiator guaranteeing sunshine by giving refunds for travel if it rains. Now Orbitz is refunding portions of your airfare if someone else books the same flight for less: Introducing Orbitz PRICE ASSURANCE: Get the Lowest Fare or a CASH Refund!

Here’s how it works:

Book flight Book a flight on Orbitz and they’ll start tracking to see if another customer books the same itinerary at a lower price.

Refund earned
They’ll continue tracking until the day you fly. Each time the price drops and someone books your flight for less, they’ll issue a cash refund for the difference, between $5 and $250 per traveler.

Check mailed
Expect to get your refund check about 30 days after your trip. It’s automatic — no need to call, e-mail or fill out forms. Just make sure to cash your check within 90 days of the issue date.

Of course there is that pesky fine print, let’s take a look at some of it:

Listed are the first 5 must read Terms and Conditions:

• 1. Orbitz Price Assurance is available to any customer who makes a qualifying airfare booking through the Orbitz Web site. Qualifying booking must occur on Orbitz.com on/after June 6th, 2008.
• 2. Orbitz Price Assurance applies only to airline tickets booked on Orbitz, and only for tickets booked using a valid credit card with a United States billing address.
• 3. Orbitz Price Assurance applies only to the total airfare (base plus taxes plus government fees plus airline imposed fuel and other surcharges) and does not apply to differences based on service, booking, processing, shipping, paper-ticket and other fees and other charges not collected on the airline ticket.
• 4. If Orbitz finds, after you have booked your flight, that another Orbitz customer has booked the same flight(s), meaning the same dates/times of travel, on the same airline, with the same flight numbers, for the same passenger type, itinerary, cabin, and subject to the same fare refundability, or other restrictions, that is at least $5 lower than the airfare you booked on Orbitz, Orbitz will refund you the difference up to a maximum of $250.00 per ticket.
• 5. The confirmed airfare and itinerary you booked on Orbitz.com will be compared to the same itinerary on Orbitz for drops in fare up until the day you fly. Fares are compared with like fare restrictions, so for example, if an unrestricted airfare is booked on Orbitz, it will not qualify for the Orbitz Price Assurance if compared to a restricted airfare found on the Orbitz Web site.

Read more Terms and Conditions:Orbitz PRICE ASSURANCE

Sounds like a good deal!

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