Fuel Dumping: An Idiot's Guide
Oct 12, 2011, 10:49 am
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Fuel Dumping: An Idiot's Guide
Seeing as the other thread about fuel dumping is now bordering on the farcical in it's surrealism (what on Earth is the "fatty sitting on the furniture"?) and has stretched to 942 pages, and has therefore become rather unweildly, I'm starting this thread with the aim that more people can benefit from this "trick" to bring down air fares. This is in the "sharing" spirit that is Flyertalk. 
I shall be posting lots of information in due course but I welcome anybody else to add to it, the only caveat being it would help if it's easy to understand and doesn't turn into a small "clique" of people making childish and unhelpful comments.
I shall be posting lots of information in due course but I welcome anybody else to add to it, the only caveat being it would help if it's easy to understand and doesn't turn into a small "clique" of people making childish and unhelpful comments.
Oct 12, 2011, 10:50 am
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Reserved for a future post explaining "fuel dumping".
Right, I'm ready to make my first explanation but I'm a little unsure about what I'm allowed to say here.
More soon......
Right, I'm ready to make my first explanation but I'm a little unsure about what I'm allowed to say here.
More soon......
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Oct 12, 2011, 12:31 pm
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I respect you for doing this, but I hope you brought your fire suit my man, cause a storm is a brewin'.
Oct 12, 2011, 12:32 pm
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A similar thread can be found at MilePoint. Not as much experience there, admittedly, but a lot more friendly and explanatory in some ways. The openness does attract more novices, but their eager to learn.
Oct 12, 2011, 12:53 pm
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It's come to my attention that several members present in the "trick it" thread, when receiving PM's for help, were asking for money to proceed. 
Oct 12, 2011, 1:01 pm
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Oct 12, 2011, 1:11 pm
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There are also people on the other end, who are willing to pay for help tricking an itinerary. I agree that the only way to prevent this is to make the help more easily obtained.
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But how are you going to tell people how to FD when you don't even know how to do it? Blind leading the blind.
Oct 12, 2011, 1:31 pm
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I don't think it's going to work
The reason FD'ing is so arcane in that thread is because being direct about it brings a lot of attention (which results in a lot of people booking itineraries) and the airlines shut it down.
What you're trying to do is make it obvious, straightforward, and accessible. People will pile on, and then the tricks will stop working. The people with the knowledge in the FD thread have a vested interest in not having that happen. The less people that know about the tricks, the longer they will continue to work.
What you're trying to do is make it obvious, straightforward, and accessible. People will pile on, and then the tricks will stop working. The people with the knowledge in the FD thread have a vested interest in not having that happen. The less people that know about the tricks, the longer they will continue to work.
Oct 12, 2011, 1:37 pm
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Oct 12, 2011, 1:40 pm
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OP, why are you having trouble with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dumping
Fuel dumping (or a fuel jettison) is a procedure used by aircraft in certain emergency situations before a return to the airport shortly after takeoff, or before landing short of its intended destination to lighten aircraft's weight.
Oct 12, 2011, 1:56 pm
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What's the point, exactly?
I doubt that your intentions are to share. The only thing you're going to achieve is to make those FD method you expose obsolete within days. We have seen this happen many times in the past.