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
Jul 28, 2015, 6:15 pm
#2987
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SAT
Programs: AA EXP BA Gold, TK Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AS 100K, QR PLT, SAS Gold, IHG Spire, AMR
Posts: 5,898
Jul 28, 2015, 11:41 pm
#2988
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NJ
Posts: 10
FINALLY!
Thank you to everyone who has posted words of encouragement to long time lurkers like myself. After reading through thousands of pages on here and searching hundreds of flights, I finally just got my first working 3x! c1-c5 star alliance.
Holy cow that is so much fun watching the YQ almost totally disappear.
Holy cow that is so much fun watching the YQ almost totally disappear.
Jul 29, 2015, 2:25 am
#2990
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Valencia, Spain
Programs: Pascal and Python, no C++
Posts: 738
As for me, of course I could go and look up your BF and the fare rules that go with, but I won't.
Jul 29, 2015, 3:03 am
#2992
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,265
If you have a question, just share the specifics because nobody will put effort in finding the exact fare your are talking about in order to answer your question.
Like Wolf already told you, this consideration comes on every 4th page of this thread, which makes us wonder if you have even put effort in reading the thread and the wiki.
And make sure your fare is EoE +.
Jul 29, 2015, 3:04 am
#2993
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: c2
Posts: 691
you can buy such flights currently for slightly over 200 euros anyway. No x involved.
Jul 29, 2015, 6:07 am
#2998
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: ARN
Programs: Bit of this, bit of that
Posts: 454
Thank you to everyone who has posted words of encouragement to long time lurkers like myself. After reading through thousands of pages on here and searching hundreds of flights, I finally just got my first working 3x! c1-c5 star alliance.
Holy cow that is so much fun watching the YQ almost totally disappear.
Holy cow that is so much fun watching the YQ almost totally disappear.
Jul 29, 2015, 6:53 am
#2999
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Madrid, Spain
Posts: 79
I finally got a successful dump, C6-C2s, saving about $300aud.
I just have some questions that hopefully someone can answer.
Can you dump UA? most flights from C6-C1 have a lot of fat.
Is it safe to have a 3X on the same airline as the RT flight?
I have also been able to dumb QR but it changes the base fare so there are no savings, Is it possible to dump QR but stay in the same fare?
I'm also wondering how you work out the route someone is talking about when they post it here?
for example this C1-C5 Star Alliance €313, there are 100s of possible airports in both areas, so how do you know which the fare is for?
Thanks for any replies
I just have some questions that hopefully someone can answer.
Can you dump UA? most flights from C6-C1 have a lot of fat.
Is it safe to have a 3X on the same airline as the RT flight?
I have also been able to dumb QR but it changes the base fare so there are no savings, Is it possible to dump QR but stay in the same fare?
I'm also wondering how you work out the route someone is talking about when they post it here?
for example this C1-C5 Star Alliance €313, there are 100s of possible airports in both areas, so how do you know which the fare is for?
Thanks for any replies
Jul 29, 2015, 7:46 am
#3000
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SAT
Programs: AA EXP BA Gold, TK Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AS 100K, QR PLT, SAS Gold, IHG Spire, AMR
Posts: 5,898
I finally got a successful dump, C6-C2s, saving about $300aud.
I just have some questions that hopefully someone can answer.
Can you dump UA? most flights from C6-C1 have a lot of fat.
Is it safe to have a 3X on the same airline as the RT flight?
I have also been able to dumb QR but it changes the base fare so there are no savings, Is it possible to dump QR but stay in the same fare?
I'm also wondering how you work out the route someone is talking about when they post it here?
for example this C1-C5 Star Alliance €313, there are 100s of possible airports in both areas, so how do you know which the fare is for?
Thanks for any replies
I just have some questions that hopefully someone can answer.
Can you dump UA? most flights from C6-C1 have a lot of fat.
Is it safe to have a 3X on the same airline as the RT flight?
I have also been able to dumb QR but it changes the base fare so there are no savings, Is it possible to dump QR but stay in the same fare?
I'm also wondering how you work out the route someone is talking about when they post it here?
for example this C1-C5 Star Alliance €313, there are 100s of possible airports in both areas, so how do you know which the fare is for?
Thanks for any replies
mostly, with caution
Yes
You look for a candidate base fare. If the fare is $300, then you will have probably $80-100 in taxes. Then you have the cost of the strike, say $40-80. So you need to look for a base fare of $120-180. These are just general numbers to illustrate.
Expertflyer is a good tool to find base fares.
Or use ITA, don't worry about the all in price and drill down to see the actual basefare.
Also, with time you will learn from experience that certain cities are prone to better rates than others. For example, IAH-LON generally has better base fares than SAT-LON. BRU-LAX is better than CDG-PHX