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
Dec 8, 2018, 3:14 am
#9361
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: FRA Im Herzen von Europa
Programs: M&M, IHG
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Since weeks always the same deals day by day. Only city pairs are changing.
I feel like having a deja-vu. It is like the funeral of TK.
Dec 8, 2018, 5:48 am
#9363
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 146
Exactly. Let's not get into: I will beat you by another cent competition and let this trick die by attracting over attraction. (Now) It's rare to have tricks on airline that work on multiple cities..and longer they live..the better it is.
Dec 8, 2018, 3:07 pm
#9364
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Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
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Big Apple to.... is C1-C2.
Posting 15972 above gets " to " and "from " mixed up.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Dec 8, 2018 at 3:12 pm
Dec 8, 2018, 3:12 pm
#9365
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 412
Well, it depends what you are referring to... C2-C1 "no 1x" is definitely overexposed here, I understand the excitation after this "discovery" but hey, people, time to grow. To grow means: not to post like crazy the same over and over again...
Dec 8, 2018, 3:17 pm
#9366
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First part of 15970 above was just the current benchmark after last week's deal.
But again let's turn down the volume on C2-C1. Too many people seem to have been able to beg their way to solutions, they would never have found on their own.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Dec 9, 2018 at 9:14 am
Dec 13, 2018, 7:04 am
#9372
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Correction. P4Fly's deal is different than mine as he just informed me .
Just that price was exactly the same. That's what can happen with all the coding requirements.
My apologies. Different carrier different routing , different alliance and different structure.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Dec 13, 2018 at 4:45 pm
Dec 14, 2018, 10:55 am
#9373
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 47
and I totally agree with You. Last week's super deals were worth mentioning though, since Mexican and several Caribbean Islands were doable for less than 100. Worth knowing for the core members of this thread, who like you travel often and are quick to pull trigger on excellent deals.
First part of 15970 above was just the current benchmark after last week's deal.
But again let's turn down the volume on C2-C1. Too many people seem to have been able to beg their way to solutions, they would never have found on their own.
First part of 15970 above was just the current benchmark after last week's deal.
But again let's turn down the volume on C2-C1. Too many people seem to have been able to beg their way to solutions, they would never have found on their own.
Last edited by Vliegertje; Dec 15, 2018 at 11:49 am
Dec 15, 2018, 12:09 pm
#9374
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: FRA Im Herzen von Europa
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Posts: 78
Dec 15, 2018, 6:06 pm
#9375
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 47
Last edited by Vliegertje; Dec 16, 2018 at 12:42 am