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 29, 2015, 6:08 am
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Jun 29, 2015, 6:09 am
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Jun 29, 2015, 6:32 am
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Jun 29, 2015, 6:40 am
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I'm not a fan of this particular blog for several reasons but I don't agree with your comment !
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Jun 29, 2015, 6:47 am
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I'm not a fan of this particular blog for several reasons but I don't agree with your comment !
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Jun 29, 2015, 6:52 am
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I'm not a fan of this particular blog for several reasons but I don't agree with your comment !
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Sorry for OT, back to business. The latest BA fail, I was able to price it for 38.00 usd, but it won't book. Any ideas how to make it bookable even if it's twice as much?
Jun 29, 2015, 6:56 am
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I'm not a fan of this particular blog for several reasons but I don't agree with your comment !
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
Those "idiots", as you qualify them, give to lots of people the opportunity to travel and I think it's much better than having a handful of people whose only game is to show off here with very cheap constructions they will never fly :-)))
I strongly disagree about the other assumption: firstly, they are not doing this for glory, mercifulness, generousity, to make people fly for few bucks..at the contrary their first and only aim is to have revenues from their ads.
Secondly everytime they post "deals" they're basically going to destroy glitches/EF etc not discovered by themselves, so that basically they behave only like lurkers here. Sorry if I abhor these behaviors.
Jun 29, 2015, 7:12 am
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shame on steve jobs for making money
Jun 29, 2015, 7:38 am
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And it's funny how you take a part of a phrase from context and try to make it sound as if that what I meant.
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Jun 29, 2015, 2:44 pm
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Jun 29, 2015, 3:57 pm
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Jun 29, 2015, 4:15 pm
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Time for not-so-intelligent question 
If I understand it correctly, when you combine fares, the most restrictive rules apply. So, I have been thinking lately, let's imagine I combine a fare that allows EoE "to certain extent" with another one that also allows it "to certain extent". How is the final restriction determined in that case? ........too many details about what I think......
Thanks for any explanation in advance!
If I understand it correctly, when you combine fares, the most restrictive rules apply. So, I have been thinking lately, let's imagine I combine a fare that allows EoE "to certain extent" with another one that also allows it "to certain extent". How is the final restriction determined in that case? ........too many details about what I think......
Thanks for any explanation in advance!
Last edited by maxvor; Jun 29, 2015 at 4:36 pm
Jun 29, 2015, 4:36 pm
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I was trying to figure out the same thing. I'm gonna keep messing around with it.
