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 17, 2018, 9:24 am
#9167
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: BNE / LHR
Programs: QF Gold
Posts: 1,601
Can search while watching netflix.
Done some quick recon now.
- The airline is a ME one (again unsure of writing specifics here)
- Taxes and essential taxes are 180 euro
- Indicates the 3x fare is ~19 euro
- Isn't openjaw (at least to anything in europe)
- isn't openjaw within vietnam
I think i read in the thread about a 13 miler working for this carrier. My understanding that was either an island hop, or a bus trip in USA from central station to airport.
Would appreciate a little more guidance from someone who knows.
I do know this airlines codeshares are dumpable however these flights are not on that codeshare (and the 3x cost for these is more than 19 euro). So the dump isn't the method that I know.
Done some quick recon now.
- The airline is a ME one (again unsure of writing specifics here)
- Taxes and essential taxes are 180 euro
- Indicates the 3x fare is ~19 euro
- Isn't openjaw (at least to anything in europe)
- isn't openjaw within vietnam
I think i read in the thread about a 13 miler working for this carrier. My understanding that was either an island hop, or a bus trip in USA from central station to airport.
Would appreciate a little more guidance from someone who knows.
I do know this airlines codeshares are dumpable however these flights are not on that codeshare (and the 3x cost for these is more than 19 euro). So the dump isn't the method that I know.
Sep 18, 2018, 2:12 am
#9170
Moderator: Mileage Run, United Airlines; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The City/Honolulu
Programs: UA 3MM; Hyatt Glob*****; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 14,473
Moderator warning
I see that some posters are forgetting their manners and the Rules of posting. That’s why we have Rule 12. It’s time to review and comply with Rule 12.
https://www.flyertalk.com/help/rules.php
I also think it’s time for everyone to review the rules of posting in this thread. You can find those here.
Failure to follow any of the rules may subject you to a suspension of your posting privileges.
Pat89339, Moderator
Mileage Run Forum
https://www.flyertalk.com/help/rules.php
I also think it’s time for everyone to review the rules of posting in this thread. You can find those here.
Failure to follow any of the rules may subject you to a suspension of your posting privileges.
Pat89339, Moderator
Mileage Run Forum
Sep 18, 2018, 3:30 am
#9171
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: BNE / LHR
Programs: QF Gold
Posts: 1,601
Ok, so it isn't the 13 miler.
I have pulled out the carriers list of codeshare partners (from their help site). So key highlights ones that might have a 19euro fare and are in interesting zones are TVG (French trains), Copa, GOL, Jetstar (asia and australia).
I can't get any of the TVG trains to show in ITA, I can find Belgium/DE/Italian trains however these do nothing as a 1 or 3x. For the TVG trains do I use CDG as the paris rail code or does the airport station have a different one?
Would greatly appreciate a nudge in the right direction from someone in the know.
Cheers,
I have pulled out the carriers list of codeshare partners (from their help site). So key highlights ones that might have a 19euro fare and are in interesting zones are TVG (French trains), Copa, GOL, Jetstar (asia and australia).
I can't get any of the TVG trains to show in ITA, I can find Belgium/DE/Italian trains however these do nothing as a 1 or 3x. For the TVG trains do I use CDG as the paris rail code or does the airport station have a different one?
Would greatly appreciate a nudge in the right direction from someone in the know.
Cheers,
Can search while watching netflix.
Done some quick recon now.
- The airline is a ME one (again unsure of writing specifics here)
- Taxes and essential taxes are 180 euro
- Indicates the 3x fare is ~19 euro
- Isn't openjaw (at least to anything in europe)
- isn't openjaw within vietnam
I think i read in the thread about a 13 miler working for this carrier. My understanding that was either an island hop, or a bus trip in USA from central station to airport.
Would appreciate a little more guidance from someone who knows.
I do know this airlines codeshares are dumpable however these flights are not on that codeshare (and the 3x cost for these is more than 19 euro). So the dump isn't the method that I know.
Done some quick recon now.
- The airline is a ME one (again unsure of writing specifics here)
- Taxes and essential taxes are 180 euro
- Indicates the 3x fare is ~19 euro
- Isn't openjaw (at least to anything in europe)
- isn't openjaw within vietnam
I think i read in the thread about a 13 miler working for this carrier. My understanding that was either an island hop, or a bus trip in USA from central station to airport.
Would appreciate a little more guidance from someone who knows.
I do know this airlines codeshares are dumpable however these flights are not on that codeshare (and the 3x cost for these is more than 19 euro). So the dump isn't the method that I know.
Sep 18, 2018, 12:44 pm
#9173
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: BNE / LHR
Programs: QF Gold
Posts: 1,601
This ends today, hopefully, someone took advantage. No luck on discovering the trick on my side, and getting some funny errors on matrix not allowing me to change sales cities (was thinking it may be something here)
Last edited by davem4; Sep 18, 2018 at 12:53 pm
Sep 19, 2018, 12:42 am
#9174
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 758
the c2-sgn deal posted by another member was worthwhile to discover and I hope you did.
Sep 19, 2018, 2:31 am
#9175
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: BNE / LHR
Programs: QF Gold
Posts: 1,601
Not yet, but the C2-SGN deal is for ticketing until 21OCT 18 so hopefully I make progress.
Sep 19, 2018, 1:02 pm
#9176
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
Better idea is for you to do 1X/2X ( Round trip) from your hometown to a world class city where you probably already have friends and start the C2-C3 from an airport much closer to your second listed hometown. You also avoid 1 or 2 potentially very expensive hotel stay(s) in extremely expensive cities.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 19, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Sep 20, 2018, 1:32 pm
#9177
Join Date: Jan 2016
Programs: Le Blue
Posts: 95
Better idea is for you to do 1X/2X ( Round trip) from your hometown to a world class city where you probably already have friends and start the C2-C3 from an airport much closer to your second listed hometown. You also avoid 1 or 2 potentially very expensive hotel stay(s) in extremely expensive cities.
Sep 20, 2018, 4:01 pm
#9178
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Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
Sep 21, 2018, 10:01 am
#9179
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
BF
A 12,189 Km 2 segment flight into Bnei Atarot has Base Fare of $ 0.43. If applied correctly.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 21, 2018 at 2:04 pm