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 12, 2018, 12:24 pm
#8867
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: c2
Posts: 691
Mar 12, 2018, 12:26 pm
#8868
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: c2
Posts: 691
no need for olci as long as you're not bringing the special attention
Mar 14, 2018, 7:48 am
#8869
Join Date: Nov 2014
Programs: Starbucks Gold
Posts: 185
For western Europeans - you can start from Anne frank house and head to a popular city in SEA and return to a city 45 min away(flight time) for 337,53 euro. On a very good airline. Dates in May. Safe construction.
Your destination can be popular destination under a volcanic threat for 399 euro.
Your destination can be popular destination under a volcanic threat for 399 euro.
Mar 14, 2018, 8:11 am
#8870
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: c2
Posts: 691
For western Europeans - you can start from Anne frank house and head to a popular city in SEA and return to a city 45 min away(flight time) for 337,53 euro. On a very good airline. Dates in May. Safe construction.
Your destination can be popular destination under a volcanic threat for 399 euro.
Your destination can be popular destination under a volcanic threat for 399 euro.
Mar 14, 2018, 1:46 pm
#8871
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: AMS / EDI
Programs: IKEA Family
Posts: 22
For western Europeans - you can start from Anne frank house and head to a popular city in SEA and return to a city 45 min away(flight time) for 337,53 euro. On a very good airline. Dates in May. Safe construction.
Your destination can be popular destination under a volcanic threat for 399 euro.
Your destination can be popular destination under a volcanic threat for 399 euro.
Mar 14, 2018, 7:20 pm
#8873
Join Date: Nov 2014
Programs: Starbucks Gold
Posts: 185
@Evianon- Yes. There seems to be some combinations that work...I thought I saw a similar fare returning from western airport in c6 but cant seem to find dates again.
Last edited by Bob Saccamano; Mar 14, 2018 at 7:31 pm
Mar 21, 2018, 9:35 pm
#8876
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: NYC
Programs: DL ✈️
Posts: 638
DP: some airlines are allowing missing flights on partner airlines to be credited to their program (doesnt work always, and this is obviously a trick)
Never tried it on a missed 3x, only on a missed flight on a regular itinerary. Got the miles (both redeem and qualifying)
Never tried it on a missed 3x, only on a missed flight on a regular itinerary. Got the miles (both redeem and qualifying)
Mar 23, 2018, 9:17 am
#8878
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 38
Yes, this one is easy. I literally got 50%off on a first ITA run. It is still a good price C2c - far C6 for ~500$
Mar 25, 2018, 11:12 am
#8879
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Programs: UA-1k, 1mm, Marriott-LT Platinum, Hertz-Presidents Circle
Posts: 6,355
Jeez what happened to this forum?????? We have a bunch of newbies and then WWE..... I'm looking at post counts and have to say I'm disappointed we have people who don't contribute much to the forum who just want to be spoonfed some FD's and save a couple hundred bucks. Haven't been on this forum for years as I'm not flying economy anyway anymore. But I respect the game.
Keep it up.
Keep it up.
Mar 25, 2018, 1:10 pm
#8880
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SAT
Programs: AA EXP BA Gold, TK Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AS 100K, QR PLT, SAS Gold, IHG Spire, AMR
Posts: 5,898
the game, and sadly, the players have changed dramatically. One guy in a league of his own and then many others have gone elsewhere as many noobs don't respect the rules. I only come here once a month, maybe, down from 2-3 times a day.