With Hotwire, you plug in your travel days and airports, then they come back with the price you can buy the ticket for. Just as with Priceline, Hotwire won't tell you flight times or carriers until you purchase the ticket. I haven't tried Hotwire yet. No wonder they call it luggage. I hauled an ironman suitcase to Philadelphia, dutifully carrying my college-going son's spring clothes to him.
Husky luggage can be tough.
Sure it has wheels, but there are places you have to lift it, and I just can't heave this big hulk up onto a luggage rack on, say, the shuttle bus from the long-term parking lot at San Francisco International Airport. Nor will the driver help. But with the smaller rental car shuttles and private parking lot shuttles, it seems to me the drivers ought to help. I have learned a trick that works on reluctant drivers of these small shuttles. If I can't lift the luggage, I just load my small luggage at snail speed.