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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2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
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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
Aug 1, 2017, 3:53 am
#8416
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Ladies and gentlemen,
what would happen if you book a 1X with a main flight (the carrier of the 1X, I heard, is known to be skippable, but I wouldn;t rely on it) is in fact AFTER the main leg because it is in a different time zone.
Does anyone have a guess or even experience?
what would happen if you book a 1X with a main flight (the carrier of the 1X, I heard, is known to be skippable, but I wouldn;t rely on it) is in fact AFTER the main leg because it is in a different time zone.
Does anyone have a guess or even experience?
Aug 1, 2017, 6:25 am
#8417
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Ladies and gentlemen,
what would happen if you book a 1X with a main flight (the carrier of the 1X, I heard, is known to be skippable, but I wouldn;t rely on it) is in fact AFTER the main leg because it is in a different time zone.
Does anyone have a guess or even experience?
what would happen if you book a 1X with a main flight (the carrier of the 1X, I heard, is known to be skippable, but I wouldn;t rely on it) is in fact AFTER the main leg because it is in a different time zone.
Does anyone have a guess or even experience?
Aug 1, 2017, 10:39 am
#8418
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: SIN/BRU
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Posts: 233
Have also already seen it, but from the moment a single person would look in your booking for whatever reason they'll probably suspend the ticket as it would be unflyable.
Also a chance that you even can't check in, as the first coupon in the e-ticket would still be the 1x, which would be unflown at the moment you try to check-in/board your mainflights.
Furthermore, even in the unlikely case that you manage to fly the outbound they'll cancel/DB the return as the ticket would be completely out of sequence at that moment.
Also a chance that you even can't check in, as the first coupon in the e-ticket would still be the 1x, which would be unflown at the moment you try to check-in/board your mainflights.
Furthermore, even in the unlikely case that you manage to fly the outbound they'll cancel/DB the return as the ticket would be completely out of sequence at that moment.
Last edited by fbruno; Aug 1, 2017 at 10:47 am
Aug 3, 2017, 11:39 am
#8420
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Aggregator portals such as KAYAK are good starting points.TATL € 156 RT. Less than half of that in reverse.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Aug 3, 2017 at 12:35 pm
Aug 4, 2017, 12:14 pm
#8421
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Aug 7, 2017, 4:39 am
#8424
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The door was never open. You need much stronger medicine.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Aug 7, 2017 at 5:27 am
Aug 7, 2017, 9:36 am
#8426
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I have never had EK problems from JFK or ever lost any money.
Sounds like you or some of your friends had problems, in which case we would love to hear about them.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Aug 7, 2017 at 9:52 am
Aug 8, 2017, 12:13 am
#8427
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WWE,
you know that I appreciate your opinion but mkflyertalk has 2 posts here. I would expect that he is new in this game.
To advise him "strong medicine" is dangerous. I would expect that mkflyertalk has no experience with that issue.
During the past month minimum 4 well known airlines denied boarding because of dumps. And yes, EK was one of that.
Experts (like you) know which strong medicine (therefore I wrote "some") is actually still working. But how long will it work? Will a noob find the right medicine to feel better, or will he get ill? OTA´s started to block the good medicine. Why? We are living in a digital world. It will be quite easy for Airlines to talk to eachother.
Conclusion: Allways think twice what kind of medicine you use although the doctor recommend it. It is like in real life.
you know that I appreciate your opinion but mkflyertalk has 2 posts here. I would expect that he is new in this game.
To advise him "strong medicine" is dangerous. I would expect that mkflyertalk has no experience with that issue.
During the past month minimum 4 well known airlines denied boarding because of dumps. And yes, EK was one of that.
Experts (like you) know which strong medicine (therefore I wrote "some") is actually still working. But how long will it work? Will a noob find the right medicine to feel better, or will he get ill? OTA´s started to block the good medicine. Why? We are living in a digital world. It will be quite easy for Airlines to talk to eachother.
Conclusion: Allways think twice what kind of medicine you use although the doctor recommend it. It is like in real life.
Aug 8, 2017, 12:48 am
#8428
Join Date: May 2013
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WWE,
you know that I appreciate your opinion but mkflyertalk has 2 posts here. I would expect that he is new in this game.
To advise him "strong medicine" is dangerous. I would expect that mkflyertalk has no experience with that issue.
During the past month minimum 4 well known airlines denied boarding because of dumps. And yes, EK was one of that.
Experts (like you) know which strong medicine (therefore I wrote "some") is actually still working. But how long will it work? Will a noob find the right medicine to feel better, or will he get ill? OTA´s started to block the good medicine. Why? We are living in a digital world. It will be quite easy for Airlines to talk to eachother.
Conclusion: Allways think twice what kind of medicine you use although the doctor recommend it. It is like in real life.
you know that I appreciate your opinion but mkflyertalk has 2 posts here. I would expect that he is new in this game.
To advise him "strong medicine" is dangerous. I would expect that mkflyertalk has no experience with that issue.
During the past month minimum 4 well known airlines denied boarding because of dumps. And yes, EK was one of that.
Experts (like you) know which strong medicine (therefore I wrote "some") is actually still working. But how long will it work? Will a noob find the right medicine to feel better, or will he get ill? OTA´s started to block the good medicine. Why? We are living in a digital world. It will be quite easy for Airlines to talk to eachother.
Conclusion: Allways think twice what kind of medicine you use although the doctor recommend it. It is like in real life.
I know QR did based on those 1x that people thought were "skippable".. then of course, they go crying to their travel agent because of the "mean" QR folks
Aug 8, 2017, 4:54 am
#8429
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If he subsequently wanted to search for "stronger medicine" he would then have to climb the learning like everyone else and by then presumably comprehend what benefit / cost ratio to expect. No different than 100s of other who have followed Trick-It over the years.
Aug 9, 2017, 6:26 am
#8430
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