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
May 20, 2016, 1:47 pm
#6241
Join Date: Jun 2015
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C2-C4
Still plenty of possibilities available. Destinations include a national capital from $179 (edit: $167) as well as many interesting destinations to the south and far south from $267-$354.
Edit: booking class earns 100% on some programs, with a minimum CPM of c.1.2.
Edit: comparable prices on another carrier routing through the US for extra miles, also earning 100% on some programs. On this carrier you can go further north, but not to C1.
Edit: booking class earns 100% on some programs, with a minimum CPM of c.1.2.
Edit: comparable prices on another carrier routing through the US for extra miles, also earning 100% on some programs. On this carrier you can go further north, but not to C1.
Last edited by starwarsgeek8; May 28, 2016 at 2:33 pm
May 21, 2016, 5:41 pm
#6244
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 12
Hello!
Hi all,
Spent the last two weeks reading through much of this thread, and just when I was about to give up, my first successful tricked fare! I'm sure you veterans can get this down quite a bit lower, but feels great to get my first working FD, without begging and pleading like certain newbies. I'm here to learn and contribute
C1w-C3se *A R/T $427 AI
Spent the last two weeks reading through much of this thread, and just when I was about to give up, my first successful tricked fare! I'm sure you veterans can get this down quite a bit lower, but feels great to get my first working FD, without begging and pleading like certain newbies. I'm here to learn and contribute
C1w-C3se *A R/T $427 AI
May 21, 2016, 5:53 pm
#6245
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Los Angeles - Bali $ 289,78
Los Angeles - Bangkok $ 225.24.
Southern Hemisphere to Bangkok 124.11
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; May 22, 2016 at 7:30 am Reason: Add. Price info
May 23, 2016, 2:41 pm
#6249
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: NYC
Programs: DL ✈️
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Yes. Depends on the carrier. One of the gulf ones is the hardest I think. The others could be dumped up to 75% with a bit of effort. Keep tricking!
Last edited by tomasdev; May 25, 2016 at 2:55 am
May 24, 2016, 12:32 pm
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Mulholland to Table Mountain $ 382.45 All in R/T
Fly on a real airplane from Mulholland to Table Mountain for
$ 382.45 All in R/T with safe simple 3X.
Fly from Lindberg or San Mateo for a few $ more.
$ 382.45 All in R/T with safe simple 3X.
Fly from Lindberg or San Mateo for a few $ more.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; May 24, 2016 at 12:58 pm
May 25, 2016, 8:12 am
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New York to Seychelles $ 295.92 All in R/T
New York to Seychelles is now $ 295.92 All in R/T with Double Trick.
Bookable on Travelocity.
Free 1 week stop-over in Shopping Capital.
DEAL EXPIRED AT MIDNIGHT.
Bookable on Travelocity.
Free 1 week stop-over in Shopping Capital.
DEAL EXPIRED AT MIDNIGHT.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; May 27, 2016 at 11:16 am Reason: DEAL EXPIRED
May 26, 2016, 5:44 am
#6254
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 26
Your idea is not bad, but forget that APIs. They are very expensive, if you want to do enough queries. The best way is to look into the techniques different otas are using and then directly use their data.
I know about people which do about 30 million queries a day and they are booking a significant amount of error fares which are never going public.
For sure you can bruteforce fuel dumps, and it is really no problem (in the database are about 10k potential strikes of all types). If you scan one route with this strikes it's just about a minute and you know what is possible (except when it's a special ota thing). But why stress yourself with flying of fuel dumps when you can fly a higher class of service without a strike and for the same money?
Be creative, learn how to scrape data.
I know about people which do about 30 million queries a day and they are booking a significant amount of error fares which are never going public.
For sure you can bruteforce fuel dumps, and it is really no problem (in the database are about 10k potential strikes of all types). If you scan one route with this strikes it's just about a minute and you know what is possible (except when it's a special ota thing). But why stress yourself with flying of fuel dumps when you can fly a higher class of service without a strike and for the same money?
Be creative, learn how to scrape data.
Last edited by funkdoc; May 26, 2016 at 6:01 am
May 26, 2016, 8:16 am
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Stop-over (4 days) added $ 20.00 in Airport Tax.
Travelocity failed to book and ticket this complicated itinerary. Expedia also failed.
However main carrier's Website ( to my surprise ) confirmed and ticketed.