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 1, 2017, 11:02 am
#8176
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 16
May 1, 2017, 8:13 pm
#8179
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: SEA
Posts: 38
Somehow this fare is still available on ITA, but I cannot find an OTA to book it. Any help is greatly appreciated!
EDIT: got it booked
Praying to the airline gods this is not cancelled.
EDIT: got it booked
Praying to the airline gods this is not cancelled.
Last edited by mustardboy; May 2, 2017 at 1:58 am
May 2, 2017, 12:07 am
#8180
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: SIN
Programs: TK - Gold, Kris - Gold, QFF - Points
Posts: 242
hi guys - general question here.
if i find a low base high YQ dumpable fare that ends in Manila for example (with Philippines banning fuel surcharge).
And look to find a 3x from mnl to somewhere else in s.e. asia.. is it destined to fail because fuel surcharge cant be collected on a fare wherein fuel surcharge can't be taken?
Sounds like a self-answering question, but throwing it out to the experts just in case.
if i find a low base high YQ dumpable fare that ends in Manila for example (with Philippines banning fuel surcharge).
And look to find a 3x from mnl to somewhere else in s.e. asia.. is it destined to fail because fuel surcharge cant be collected on a fare wherein fuel surcharge can't be taken?
Sounds like a self-answering question, but throwing it out to the experts just in case.
May 2, 2017, 10:21 pm
#8182
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Florida
Programs: UA 2MM
Posts: 1,917
Once you have found specific flights you want to take, you can enter those specific flight numbers in the ITA search and then timeouts when adding additional segments will be less frequent.
May 3, 2017, 7:05 am
#8183
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 149
Last week, I found and booked a c1c3 with a lucky X3 (lucky because it literally took me minutes to find it) which took all the fat out. Yesterday, I tried booking the same itinerary for a companion, and although BF before the X3 was the same, when I added the X3, while it took all the fat out, the BF Jumped about eightfold.
I can't say the X3 stopped working because it actually did take the fat out, but why did the BF jump? Would forcing the booking class have been a possibility to get the low FD fare back?
I can't say the X3 stopped working because it actually did take the fat out, but why did the BF jump? Would forcing the booking class have been a possibility to get the low FD fare back?
May 3, 2017, 7:06 am
#8184
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 149
May 3, 2017, 10:36 am
#8185
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: London
Programs: SK Gold, ITA Executive, Sixt Diamond, Hertz PC, Avis PC, IHG Platinum
Posts: 5,164
Last week, I found and booked a c1c3 with a lucky X3 (lucky because it literally took me minutes to find it) which took all the fat out. Yesterday, I tried booking the same itinerary for a companion, and although BF before the X3 was the same, when I added the X3, while it took all the fat out, the BF Jumped about eightfold.
I can't say the X3 stopped working because it actually did take the fat out, but why did the BF jump? Would forcing the booking class have been a possibility to get the low FD fare back?
I can't say the X3 stopped working because it actually did take the fat out, but why did the BF jump? Would forcing the booking class have been a possibility to get the low FD fare back?
May 3, 2017, 11:26 am
#8188
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 149