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
Mar 29, 2016, 2:25 pm
#5656
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: ARN
Programs: Bit of this, bit of that
Posts: 454
I don't believe that you have done any research on this thread.
You signed up today and missed 2 of the most basic rules.
1. This is the trick it thread, not the beg it thread.
(Written in large letters at the top of the page.
2. Don't code questions.
(Written on averge every couple of pages.
Why should anyone go and tell someone with no history and no credibility anything about this activity.
That would just be irresponsible.
Mar 29, 2016, 4:18 pm
#5657
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 60
Just a question, I'm looking at QR, EK, EY and trying to find 3X's, still a newbie. Are these airlines notoriously hard to find 3X's with? For example, I was playing around with a QR fare, it got rid of the FD but then the base fare went from 56 GBP to 1000 GBP -.- something is not right.
Mar 29, 2016, 5:00 pm
#5659
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 412
If you play with the date of your 3x you will easily find that it can be cheaper, and then $270 ai (or to be exact, $269.51, bookable on an airline webpage).
p.s. it is also possible to begin C1e and end C1w for $302.51 ai
p.s.2. and what @keneshhagard meant (DOJ) is also possible for $271.04 ai
p.s. it is also possible to begin C1e and end C1w for $302.51 ai
p.s.2. and what @keneshhagard meant (DOJ) is also possible for $271.04 ai
Last edited by man4business; Mar 29, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Mar 29, 2016, 5:36 pm
#5660
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: ORD/CLE
Programs: UA 1K HH Diamond
Posts: 294
Just a question, I'm looking at QR, EK, EY and trying to find 3X's, still a newbie. Are these airlines notoriously hard to find 3X's with? For example, I was playing around with a QR fare, it got rid of the FD but then the base fare went from 56 GBP to 1000 GBP -.- something is not right.
Mar 29, 2016, 6:03 pm
#5661
Join Date: Jun 2015
Programs: Delta SkyMiles
Posts: 102
If you play with the date of your 3x you will easily find that it can be cheaper, and then $270 ai (or to be exact, $269.51, bookable on an airline webpage).
p.s. it is also possible to begin C1e and end C1w for $302.51 ai
p.s.2. and what @keneshhagard meant (DOJ) is also possible for $271.04 ai
p.s. it is also possible to begin C1e and end C1w for $302.51 ai
p.s.2. and what @keneshhagard meant (DOJ) is also possible for $271.04 ai
Mar 29, 2016, 7:04 pm
#5662
Join Date: Mar 2016
Programs: Delta Skymiles, United Mileage Plus, Marriott Lifetime Silver, SPG Platinum
Posts: 215
Mar 29, 2016, 10:59 pm
#5663
Join Date: Mar 2016
Programs: Delta Skymiles, United Mileage Plus, Marriott Lifetime Silver, SPG Platinum
Posts: 215
Interesting thing I didn't think about - There are a lot of airlines that don't say in their contract of carriage that FD is not allowed :-), only very few do...
Mar 30, 2016, 7:27 am
#5665
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: HEL
Programs: AY GOLD, HH GOLD
Posts: 411
Before even starting to figure this whole FD thing out, I'd like to know what kind of cpm's are we talking about here? Comparable to the MR's? Or just "Good Deals"?
Hope I'm not intruding too much into your illuminati
Hope I'm not intruding too much into your illuminati
Mar 30, 2016, 8:23 am
#5667
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: PAR
Programs: QR Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,090
Start from milk chocolate to get energy to break a world record in December 2016 for €623.03 on ITA (it's not that cheap but it's a world record).
No apetizer needed, but you might get some high and low altitude (but always low latitude) dark chocolate or coffee for dessert.
No apetizer needed, but you might get some high and low altitude (but always low latitude) dark chocolate or coffee for dessert.
Mar 30, 2016, 9:13 am
#5668
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: FRA
Programs: QF gold, VA plat, SQ, NZ
Posts: 24
Start from milk chocolate to get energy to break a world record in December 2016 for 623.03 on ITA (it's not that cheap but it's a world record).
No apetizer needed, but you might get some high and low altitude (but always low latitude) dark chocolate or coffee for dessert.
No apetizer needed, but you might get some high and low altitude (but always low latitude) dark chocolate or coffee for dessert.
I see it being bookable for 600.21, cheers for the post!
Mar 30, 2016, 10:14 am
#5670
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: LEJ
Posts: 35
Certainly not the best of options out there, but these are some fun fares (aka: easy to dump) to play around with on a OW carrier.
C2x-C3-C2y: 398 (no tricks)
C2x-C3-C2y + 3x: 281 (flyable)
C2x-C3-C2y + 1x: 259 (flyable)
C2x-C3-C2y; C2z-C1: 512
C2x-C3-C2y; C5n-C1: 454
C2x-C3-C2y: 398 (no tricks)
C2x-C3-C2y + 3x: 281 (flyable)
C2x-C3-C2y + 1x: 259 (flyable)
C2x-C3-C2y; C2z-C1: 512
C2x-C3-C2y; C5n-C1: 454