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, 2017, 1:42 am
#8236
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May 20, 2017, 1:59 am
#8237
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 47
Big Apple to The Fashion Capital for about €200 ai r/t with dessert. Free stopover. Nothing exciting to most here but very easy to find. ITAable and found on most search engines. If you're new to FD like me this might be a good start.
Last edited by ncben; May 20, 2017 at 2:04 am
May 20, 2017, 2:02 am
#8238
Join Date: Oct 2014
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May 20, 2017, 6:39 am
#8239
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
C2 destinations Krakow Poland and Budapest Hungary also produce good results or any OJ among those, I use this one all the time to Absalon City with return from Fashion. Remember you can get to/from city center for only 3 euros on the tram.
May 21, 2017, 6:48 am
#8240
Suspended
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Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
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Special C2 Airport
C2 (Special Airport) - Middle East - stop-over - NYC/LAX/CHI/MIA - stop-over -
Open Jaw between NYC/LAX/CHI/MIA - Bali $ 336.76 All-in
Open Jaw between NYC/LAX/CHI/MIA - Bali $ 336.76 All-in
May 21, 2017, 8:05 am
#8241
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: BG
Programs: BAEC Silver, TK Elite, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 827
- Thanks for sharing
May 21, 2017, 10:45 am
#8243
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 47
OJ BOS/LAX seems to produce better results. Can also return from PHL-HKG.
Last edited by ncben; May 21, 2017 at 11:30 am
May 22, 2017, 12:01 am
#8244
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: MOW
Posts: 9
I, too, thought so, but posts in the RU forums are full of a lot of dumps of the TK rules
May 22, 2017, 1:52 am
#8245
Join Date: Nov 2004
Programs: UA 1K (Million Miler). AA Gold (lifetime 1 Million). TK Elite Gold
Posts: 895
Sorry. What exactly are you saying in your response? The fare statement that I originally posted was from a TK inter Europe r/t itinerary. So, again can it be "struck X3" to reduce that amount above the base fare?
May 22, 2017, 6:29 am
#8246
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Valencia, Spain
Programs: Pascal and Python, no C++
Posts: 738
What man4business is trying to tell you is that the rules are very clear on what's possible as a "strike" (TK only flights) and that they are very unlikely to be dumping.
May 22, 2017, 9:40 am
#8250
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: C2
Posts: 651