Nov 20, 2013, 7:48 am
Last edit by: Pat89339
Do not call the airlines under any conditions! This is the fastest way to kill the trick and bring unwanted attention to your itinerary! And do not post precious deals in this thread, this is by far the fastest way to kill the trick!
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This is NOT the right place to ask: "Can you help me with a low fare for AAA-BBB?" This is not the beg-it thread, but the trick-it thread.
This thread deals with unique combinations of routes and booking tricks in order to lower prices on airline fares. Prices that would astound the general public are often achieved by the posters in this thread.
Many people, including airline representatives, monitor this thread. For that reason, it is unorganized, very content heavy, often lacking details, and written in shorthand. It takes patience and effort in order to understand the conversation and be able to participate as an active member.
We encourage you to read the entirety of this thread if you would like to get started and to experiment as soon as you understand the gist of Trick It. Lots of time spent reading, practicing, and learning is the only way to be able to reproduce our tricks and discover new ones yourself. There are many, many people who ask for advice here, so productive members are only able to help those who have shown a concerted effort and progress over a long period of time (months).
If you have no idea what this thread is about, a good place to start are various blogs' posts on the subject. At the very least, read the Rules for posting in this thread. They're also listed in the very first post, below.
Older portions of the thread have been separated into archive thread by year. They are listed below
2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2009 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2010 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2011 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2012 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2013 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2014 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
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This is NOT the right place to ask: "Can you help me with a low fare for AAA-BBB?" This is not the beg-it thread, but the trick-it thread.
This thread deals with unique combinations of routes and booking tricks in order to lower prices on airline fares. Prices that would astound the general public are often achieved by the posters in this thread.
Many people, including airline representatives, monitor this thread. For that reason, it is unorganized, very content heavy, often lacking details, and written in shorthand. It takes patience and effort in order to understand the conversation and be able to participate as an active member.
We encourage you to read the entirety of this thread if you would like to get started and to experiment as soon as you understand the gist of Trick It. Lots of time spent reading, practicing, and learning is the only way to be able to reproduce our tricks and discover new ones yourself. There are many, many people who ask for advice here, so productive members are only able to help those who have shown a concerted effort and progress over a long period of time (months).
If you have no idea what this thread is about, a good place to start are various blogs' posts on the subject. At the very least, read the Rules for posting in this thread. They're also listed in the very first post, below.
Older portions of the thread have been separated into archive thread by year. They are listed below
2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2009 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2010 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2011 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2012 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2013 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2014 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Trick it / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Jan 21, 2017, 6:17 pm
#7636
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Florida
Programs: UA 2MM
Posts: 1,917
My C1-C5-C1 fare via world cup city has a $450+ YQ. I can drop about 50% of that YQ with a short 3x but it still leaves me with more than $200 in YQ. A 1x drops almost all the YQ and brings me to $390 AI but I don't have time to fly it. 
I used to be able to do this same itin via big ben, with an additional stop north of the border both ways, for less than $400 but that low base fare seems to have dried up.
Any help is appreciated ... in return for something that works from an established dumper, I have a few c1-c3 tricks that have worked for me, incl my home to my name on *A for $343 RT.
I used to be able to do this same itin via big ben, with an additional stop north of the border both ways, for less than $400 but that low base fare seems to have dried up.
Any help is appreciated ... in return for something that works from an established dumper, I have a few c1-c3 tricks that have worked for me, incl my home to my name on *A for $343 RT.
Last edited by BangkokTraveler; Jan 22, 2017 at 3:31 am
Jan 22, 2017, 1:52 am
#7638
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 9,307
I'm a carryon only ALWAYS (except when I had to carry tools as part of my job), but consensus has been do NOT check bags. With FD, just one more chance for someone to see the ticket
Over 20 years ago, and except the great job that required carrying screwdrivers and such, I have not checked one single bag since
Over 20 years ago, and except the great job that required carrying screwdrivers and such, I have not checked one single bag since
Anybody else?
Jan 22, 2017, 5:12 am
#7640
Join Date: Feb 2014
Programs: Star Alliance Gold, AS MVP
Posts: 990
Jan 22, 2017, 7:25 am
#7641
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: SIN/BRU
Programs: A3 Silver, BA BLUE, IHG Gold, Hertz President's circle, AY plat
Posts: 233
Better don't risk checking bags on dumped tickets.
Check-in agents can ALWAYS see the fare paid for the ticket.
(Unless when travelling on a negotiated IT fare, but these are anyway difficult to dump. IT fares are mostly used for group tickets, tour operators and some special shorthaul fares without bags).
Check-in agents can ALWAYS see the fare paid for the ticket.
(Unless when travelling on a negotiated IT fare, but these are anyway difficult to dump. IT fares are mostly used for group tickets, tour operators and some special shorthaul fares without bags).
Jan 22, 2017, 7:36 am
#7644
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: Various
Posts: 49
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Jan 22, 2017, 7:43 am
#7645
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: Various
Posts: 49
Jan 23, 2017, 2:24 am
#7650
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 38
I use ita only for finding and reading fare rules. Everything other than that is only on OTA. And start reading how to program your searches automatically and write yourself a script, because you'll need it
In my opinion it's zero chances you'll find anything working manually with OTAs
In my opinion it's zero chances you'll find anything working manually with OTAs