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
#8161
Join Date: Jun 2014
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Seriously though, at times I do numerous somewhat complex and broad queries, and it works fine, other times for a period of time, everything, including simple round-trips time-outs. Could be load related as well.
#8163
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C2-NYC >Stop-over< NYC - C2.5 >Stop-over< C2.5 - C2 $381.06
C2-NYC >Stop-over< NYC - C2.5
$267.86 All-in Bookable.
C2-NYC >Stop-over< NYC - C2.5 >Stop-over< C2.5 - C2
$381.06 All-in Bookable.
C2-NYC >Stop-over< NYC - C2.5 >Stop-over< C2.5 - Jakarta
$ 372.06 All-in Bookable
$267.86 All-in Bookable.
C2-NYC >Stop-over< NYC - C2.5 >Stop-over< C2.5 - C2
$381.06 All-in Bookable.
C2-NYC >Stop-over< NYC - C2.5 >Stop-over< C2.5 - Jakarta
$ 372.06 All-in Bookable
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Apr 26, 2017 at 5:14 pm Reason: Hint: Only 1 "ONE" airport in C2 will work.
#8165
Join Date: Mar 2017
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Posts: 15
Hello experts,
Has anyone experience with booking complex multi city itineraries directly from [edited out] website? I booked one open jaw with a third separate leg and the booking engine showed me a grand total and charged me a lower price, than the confirmation email.
Looks like the confirmation email has added taxes and fees that were not shown before. (Even with the surcharges it's reasonable but not really what I thought I'm buying).
Seems like I was only charged the base fare but they already confirmed the e-ticket. Will they ask for more money later or just cancel the ticket?
Has anyone experience with booking complex multi city itineraries directly from [edited out] website? I booked one open jaw with a third separate leg and the booking engine showed me a grand total and charged me a lower price, than the confirmation email.
Looks like the confirmation email has added taxes and fees that were not shown before. (Even with the surcharges it's reasonable but not really what I thought I'm buying).
Seems like I was only charged the base fare but they already confirmed the e-ticket. Will they ask for more money later or just cancel the ticket?
Last edited by flyeer; May 7, 2017 at 2:54 pm
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