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
Sep 14, 2018, 6:28 am
#9151
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Sep 14, 2018, 6:36 am
#9152
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: BNE / LHR
Programs: QF Gold
Posts: 1,601
TK have a 1 GBP fare from LHR-BKK allowing stopover in IST.
Travel basically Feb-Jun next year.
I know TK have been dumpable in the past, but I have no idea how so don't PM me asking for advice.
But this may be helpful to those that do know how to deal with TK.
Travel basically Feb-Jun next year.
I know TK have been dumpable in the past, but I have no idea how so don't PM me asking for advice.
But this may be helpful to those that do know how to deal with TK.
Sep 14, 2018, 6:42 am
#9153
Join Date: Apr 2015
Programs: BA, Virgin. LC Accor, IGH, BW
Posts: 28
This is trimmable now. Not quite to 1 GBP but certainly to 50% off.
Sep 14, 2018, 6:51 am
#9154
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: BNE / LHR
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Posts: 1,601
Sep 14, 2018, 6:53 am
#9155
Join Date: Apr 2015
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Posts: 28
Sep 14, 2018, 7:25 am
#9157
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Sep 14, 2018, 2:24 pm
#9161
Suspended
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TK
Originating in NYC only a bit higher.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 15, 2018 at 5:25 am Reason: Try LGW
Sep 17, 2018, 12:30 am
#9164
Join Date: May 2013
Location: west coast best coast
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Consulting the pros:
Does anyone have familiarity with the back-end of e-tickets on how OTAs manage control of a ticket?
For example, some OTAs, like O/XP/PL, it's very easy for airlines to reissue a ticket. You can often do this completely through their online platform. It seems O/XP/PL doesn't lock e-ticket control.
Other ones, particularly those OTAs charging agency handling fees, you can't be able to do so. This is probably intentional since they want to collect the fees and not have you go through the airline directly, unless travel has begun, or IRROPS from WX/MX/etc.
Does anyone know how various OTAs fall under in this regard: I'm looking at OTAs like Flighthub/Justfly, Vayama, travel2be, Cheapoair, etc.
Does anyone have familiarity with the back-end of e-tickets on how OTAs manage control of a ticket?
For example, some OTAs, like O/XP/PL, it's very easy for airlines to reissue a ticket. You can often do this completely through their online platform. It seems O/XP/PL doesn't lock e-ticket control.
Other ones, particularly those OTAs charging agency handling fees, you can't be able to do so. This is probably intentional since they want to collect the fees and not have you go through the airline directly, unless travel has begun, or IRROPS from WX/MX/etc.
Does anyone know how various OTAs fall under in this regard: I'm looking at OTAs like Flighthub/Justfly, Vayama, travel2be, Cheapoair, etc.