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
Jan 16, 2015, 2:26 pm
#379
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: FLR
Posts: 6
Success! Complete newbie. Lurked here and tried to figure out the art of FD in 2011-2012, gave up. Got interested again a few months ago. Tried to have an organized approach and a method to the madness.. I finally have a successful FD! i incurred other charges but the yq went down, that's a start!
i still don't have the hang of it but thank you to all the people here who answer questions and try to help in roundabout ways.
i still don't have the hang of it but thank you to all the people here who answer questions and try to help in roundabout ways.
Jan 16, 2015, 2:34 pm
#380
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: c2
Posts: 691
are you sure? He was writing about 3x.
Jan 16, 2015, 9:00 pm
#384
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Atlanta, GA Hub Captive
Programs: DL GM, FL A+ Elite, WN A List
Posts: 303
Seeing it out of MIA to MAD, FCO, LON so far
Last edited by tfc3rid; Jan 16, 2015 at 9:07 pm
Jan 16, 2015, 11:49 pm
#386
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Here Today Gone Tomorrow
Programs: NW Silver, CO Silver,SPG Gold, USMint Presidential, Chase/BA 100k, Airtran Wendy's cups
Posts: 815
some nice fares from C1-SYD with some decent amount of dump. Getting some nice sub $1000 r/t. Asia is still the best bang for your buck.
Last edited by nwa330; Jan 17, 2015 at 12:20 am
Jan 17, 2015, 6:52 am
#387
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: LON, BRU, AMS
Programs: FB Gold
Posts: 108
Hey folks,
I wanted to get your views and experiences on collecting miles on tricked itineraries. Is this a definite no-go? With enough dumping, surely the airlines will recognise what you're doing and shut down your FF account? I am deliberating over whether I should give my FB # on a massively dumped C2-C3 ST fare since it already has around 45k in it. Seems like too much of a risk do to it - would be nice to see what everyone else thinks.
I wanted to get your views and experiences on collecting miles on tricked itineraries. Is this a definite no-go? With enough dumping, surely the airlines will recognise what you're doing and shut down your FF account? I am deliberating over whether I should give my FB # on a massively dumped C2-C3 ST fare since it already has around 45k in it. Seems like too much of a risk do to it - would be nice to see what everyone else thinks.
Jan 17, 2015, 6:55 am
#388
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Da World (GOT usually)
Programs: Oneworld, Hilton, IHG
Posts: 409
I only FD for MR purposes.
Always credit the miles.
Always credit the miles.
Hey folks,
I wanted to get your views and experiences on collecting miles on tricked itineraries. Is this a definite no-go? With enough dumping, surely the airlines will recognise what you're doing and shut down your FF account? I am deliberating over whether I should give my FB # on a massively dumped C2-C3 ST fare since it already has around 45k in it. Seems like too much of a risk do to it - would be nice to see what everyone else thinks.
I wanted to get your views and experiences on collecting miles on tricked itineraries. Is this a definite no-go? With enough dumping, surely the airlines will recognise what you're doing and shut down your FF account? I am deliberating over whether I should give my FB # on a massively dumped C2-C3 ST fare since it already has around 45k in it. Seems like too much of a risk do to it - would be nice to see what everyone else thinks.
Jan 17, 2015, 7:27 am
#389
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NY
Programs: AA: ExPlat & 3MM; UA: 1k; KL: Plat 4 Life; Hyatt: Plat; SPG, Marriott, Hilton: Gold
Posts: 2,709
Hey folks,
I wanted to get your views and experiences on collecting miles on tricked itineraries. Is this a definite no-go? With enough dumping, surely the airlines will recognise what you're doing and shut down your FF account? I am deliberating over whether I should give my FB # on a massively dumped C2-C3 ST fare since it already has around 45k in it. Seems like too much of a risk do to it - would be nice to see what everyone else thinks.
I wanted to get your views and experiences on collecting miles on tricked itineraries. Is this a definite no-go? With enough dumping, surely the airlines will recognise what you're doing and shut down your FF account? I am deliberating over whether I should give my FB # on a massively dumped C2-C3 ST fare since it already has around 45k in it. Seems like too much of a risk do to it - would be nice to see what everyone else thinks.