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
Jun 26, 2015, 5:39 am
#2656
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LHR
Programs: M&M,HH Gold,Accor Plat.,Priority Club Plat. Ambassador,Club Carlson Gold,Marriott Gold,GHA Plat.
Posts: 1,627
Oh, that damn frustration ! Relax, you're the one and only #1 here.
Well, and just because you're the most "updated" here on the square, just for your information, LH is 100% dumpable with special construction from C2 to C3. And also, maybe, even with a common 3X.
So now, you're free to go back to your funny little games dude.
In the meantime we will wait for your next polemic and frustrated post.
Jun 26, 2015, 6:00 am
#2657
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 758
hahahah funny to see how much polemic you are. I didn't know you were the one who was in charge to decide who was expert and who's not. And funny to see how your posts are more oriented to polemize with other users in order to establish who's the #1 rather to build concrete suggestions.
Oh, that damn frustration ! Relax, you're the one and only #1 here.
Well, and just because you're the most "updated" here on the square, just for your information, LH is 100% dumpable with special construction from C2 to C3. And also, maybe, even with a common 3X.
So now, you're free to go back to your funny little games dude.
In the meantime we will wait for your next polemic and frustrated post.
Oh, that damn frustration ! Relax, you're the one and only #1 here.
Well, and just because you're the most "updated" here on the square, just for your information, LH is 100% dumpable with special construction from C2 to C3. And also, maybe, even with a common 3X.
So now, you're free to go back to your funny little games dude.
In the meantime we will wait for your next polemic and frustrated post.
Anyway you forgot the starting point. I replied to @airboss because it is absurd to see people who tell "carrier XX is dumpable", what is the point?
If you want to "share" something you must give basic info and the total price is the first basic info!
So I did a little post and now he can try to understand if it is worhwhile to spend time on this without knowing the first "basic info".
I was polemic against your post because your wrong suggestion to "non expert" is due to your poor knowledge.
Jun 26, 2015, 6:07 am
#2659
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: c2
Posts: 691
All the airlines are dumpable because there are different ways to remove YQ. BUT only few ways are golden eggs!
Anyway you forgot the starting point. I replied to @airboss because it is absurd to see people who tell "carrier XX is dumpable", what is the point?
If you want to "share" something you must give basic info and the total price is the first basic info!
So I did a little post and now he can try to understand if it is worhwhile to spend time on this without knowing the first "basic info".
I was polemic against your post because your wrong suggestion to "non expert" is due to your poor knowledge.
Anyway you forgot the starting point. I replied to @airboss because it is absurd to see people who tell "carrier XX is dumpable", what is the point?
If you want to "share" something you must give basic info and the total price is the first basic info!
So I did a little post and now he can try to understand if it is worhwhile to spend time on this without knowing the first "basic info".
I was polemic against your post because your wrong suggestion to "non expert" is due to your poor knowledge.
And...to be honest...you told him neither the price, nor the construction. "You must give basic info" ;-)
Jun 26, 2015, 6:25 am
#2660
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 758
So if you do post without price, you don't want to share info, you just want to catch the attention via PM....
Do you understand what I mean?
Jun 26, 2015, 6:38 am
#2662
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: RIC
Programs: AA, Marriott
Posts: 103
Not to add fuel to the fire but obviously a lot of airlines are fully dumpable - just not an economical cost / fare construction. For me the interesting part is to take those insights and apply to award tickets on which some airlines insist on passing their yq (and cut fat on award tickets - been discussed in this forum as well ah ah ah).
Jun 26, 2015, 7:02 am
#2663
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LHR
Programs: M&M,HH Gold,Accor Plat.,Priority Club Plat. Ambassador,Club Carlson Gold,Marriott Gold,GHA Plat.
Posts: 1,627
All the airlines are dumpable because there are different ways to remove YQ. BUT only few ways are golden eggs!
Anyway you forgot the starting point. I replied to @airboss because it is absurd to see people who tell "carrier XX is dumpable", what is the point?
If you want to "share" something you must give basic info and the total price is the first basic info!
So I did a little post and now he can try to understand if it is worhwhile to spend time on this without knowing the first "basic info".
I was polemic against your post because your wrong suggestion to "non expert" is due to your poor knowledge.
Anyway you forgot the starting point. I replied to @airboss because it is absurd to see people who tell "carrier XX is dumpable", what is the point?
If you want to "share" something you must give basic info and the total price is the first basic info!
So I did a little post and now he can try to understand if it is worhwhile to spend time on this without knowing the first "basic info".
I was polemic against your post because your wrong suggestion to "non expert" is due to your poor knowledge.
Go back to the business, now:
C2-C4 278€ *A.
Last edited by Paul4Travel; Jun 27, 2015 at 3:25 am
Jun 26, 2015, 9:04 am
#2666
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: C1 & C2
Programs: Tim Horton's Gold
Posts: 373
Jun 26, 2015, 11:11 am
#2667
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,265
Ha, seems you discovered Pimp's special dish @:-) ?
Jun 26, 2015, 5:44 pm
#2668
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: AMS
Posts: 589
Jun 26, 2015, 6:49 pm
#2670
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SFO
Programs: SQ QPPS, *A Gold, EK Skywards Gold
Posts: 673
For those who have been trying like I have to rid the SilverKris of fat ex C1, a partial diet seems to be possible. Not an amazing deal by any stretch since BF's are so high, but for those who like the service and don't mind paying extra, it's a nice discount!