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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
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
2011 Trick it / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Dec 29, 2011, 6:01 pm
#8056
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SEA
Programs: AS MVP 75K, DL Diamond, LH SEN, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 2,360
you didnt miss anything. One of the "dont's" jdoe left out is "don't think out loud" multiple out loud posts with additional chiming in, sometimes makes the big picture appear clearly to the airlines.
Sometimes things stacked in the apple cart are very susceptible to being knocked over. In the beginning the sweetest box of cherries that was on the top shelf got knocked over within 48hrs. In round two, a little fix was added to the vegetable soup and now spoonfuls have N's in them. Hopefully there wont be a round 3 or it may get labeled "poof"
Sometimes things stacked in the apple cart are very susceptible to being knocked over. In the beginning the sweetest box of cherries that was on the top shelf got knocked over within 48hrs. In round two, a little fix was added to the vegetable soup and now spoonfuls have N's in them. Hopefully there wont be a round 3 or it may get labeled "poof"
Dec 29, 2011, 6:03 pm
#8057
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Airline nobody. Sad!
Posts: 26,062
BOS is even worse. It almost makes more sense to get a private limo for BOS-YUL than to pay AC's going rate for their nonstop.
Dec 29, 2011, 7:04 pm
#8058
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The Castro, San Francisco, California
Programs: UA, DL, AA, Aegean Air, Cal Alumni (go Bears!)
Posts: 594
Dec 30, 2011, 1:26 am
#8059
Join Date: Jul 2008
Programs: Greyhound Vermillion Mithril
Posts: 693
another newbie question... hopefully this is OK because it's about the base fare.
How'd you go about finding good base fares (assuming we are not looking to travel to any specific destinations)? There are more than thousands of origin-destination pairs, plus the fares are different on different dates, plus they change often too... Thanks in advance.
How'd you go about finding good base fares (assuming we are not looking to travel to any specific destinations)? There are more than thousands of origin-destination pairs, plus the fares are different on different dates, plus they change often too... Thanks in advance.
Dec 30, 2011, 1:33 am
#8060
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP, Hilton GLD, Marriott Plat, NEXUS/GE
Posts: 2,872
another newbie question... hopefully this is OK because it's about the base fare.
How'd you go about finding good base fares (assuming we are not looking to travel to any specific destinations)? There are more than thousands of origin-destination pairs, plus the fares are different on different dates, plus they change often too... Thanks in advance.
How'd you go about finding good base fares (assuming we are not looking to travel to any specific destinations)? There are more than thousands of origin-destination pairs, plus the fares are different on different dates, plus they change often too... Thanks in advance.
Dec 30, 2011, 2:45 am
#8061
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 3
Sorry, but I am confused now. Read Janetdoe's post #15839 upthread, but not sure, if I understand correct. Does it mean, that I can mention carrier, dates, 3x,OJ without any coding ?
Dec 30, 2011, 3:40 am
#8062
Join Date: Jul 2008
Programs: Greyhound Vermillion Mithril
Posts: 693
In the good ol' days (until about a week or two ago), you could use FareCompare's Mileage Run search (formerly http://farecompare.com/flyertalk) and do region-based searches to start getting ideas of what you might want to work with.
Thanks! Hopefully they will bring it back...
Dec 30, 2011, 7:07 am
#8063
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: EWN/OAJ/RDU/ILM (Formerly BTV)
Programs: HH D i a m o n d !!!
Posts: 356
1x / 3x should NOT be made public.
The more you code a question, the less FT'ers and FD'ers can help.
Last edited by perkunas; Dec 30, 2011 at 7:55 am
Dec 30, 2011, 8:09 am
#8065
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: BWIADCA
Posts: 1,902
Since then I've been flying to BUF or BTV if I want to visit Canada.
Dec 30, 2011, 8:11 am
#8066
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 700
YYZ- Many C2 cities $49 base fare one-way. on 9W/SN.. Are these dumpable? Fat is 60%+ of total price.
Not a whiz myself at FDs - so hopefully this will help anyone- especially a low base to C2 from YYZ is harder to come by.
Cheers.
Not a whiz myself at FDs - so hopefully this will help anyone- especially a low base to C2 from YYZ is harder to come by.
Cheers.
Dec 30, 2011, 8:15 am
#8067
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: DFW
Programs: AS, BA, AA
Posts: 3,670
If you are posting a question about a published fare, or in general posting a question about how you want to go from AAA-BBB (the airlines publish the fact that they fly between cities, and they really hope there are people who want to fly those routes
) there is no need to code.
Dec 30, 2011, 8:49 am
#8068
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: RDU
Programs: AA EXP, United Gold, Marriott Platinum, Club Carlson Gold, Hyatt Platinum, Emerald Club
Posts: 14
Lx: Lax-sfo-zrh rt $519.43
LAX-SFO-ZRH-SFO-LAX $519.43
Example:
LAX-SFO US JAN 30
SFO-ZRH LX JAN 30
ZRH-SFO LX FEB 29
SFO-LAX AS FEB 29
bookable on Vayama
Link
http://www.vayama.com/results/index....cb=32999251365
Example:
LAX-SFO US JAN 30
SFO-ZRH LX JAN 30
ZRH-SFO LX FEB 29
SFO-LAX AS FEB 29
bookable on Vayama
Link
http://www.vayama.com/results/index....cb=32999251365
Dec 30, 2011, 8:59 am
#8069
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: California
Posts: 1,127
I could find some 3x's that would bring the YQ of LAX-TYO r.t. on OW to $100 (departure date by end of Mar), but the 3x's themselves are all >= $110, bringing the total to $467.60 (only if both flights are on Mon-Thurs). I am wondering if the FD experts here can give this noobie some hints on how to lower the total even more, even something vague would help a lot. I don't think I am flexible enough to use 1x, but I am open to (or even welcome) creative construction. Thanks in advance!
Also, any way to add Honolulu, Taipei, or Hong Kong as a real stopover without blowing this up?