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Old Nov 20, 2013, 7:48 am
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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.

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Old Feb 18, 2019, 1:24 am
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Question about AI?

Is AI (practically feasible/not Y class fare or expensive 3Xs) dumpable anymore? Specifically on the route:
OSL-SK-CPH/ARN-AI-C3 or vice versa.

it seems that Maharaja has fixed quite many leaking holes.

A simple yes/no will be a good start, but more pointers via Pm will be highly appreciated.

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Old Feb 19, 2019, 1:17 am
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Originally Posted by andydd
not ... expensive 3Xs
f bc=m|bc=b|bc=y will tell you if there's reason for hope
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Old Feb 19, 2019, 6:31 am
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Originally Posted by pimpcoltd
f bc=m bc=b bc=y will tell you if there's reason for hope
True, but number of times I have been misguided text FRs and interpretation of FR by ITA in contrast to the ones done by OTA is rather astonishing.

And hence the reason for hope.
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Old Feb 19, 2019, 7:16 am
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C2-C1 RT 86,52€ Virgin strike.

Long stay required because of the bad availability but if you buy it on the right OTA, you can use it as one way C1-C2
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Old Feb 19, 2019, 5:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Euro404
btw: what about those 1€ fares on direct flights C2-C4, dumpable to sub 150€ without 1x?
Gone now, but it wasn't 150E it was more like 50EUR on edreams or 90EUR on more reputable ota.
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Old Feb 19, 2019, 5:17 pm
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Originally Posted by bartas8891
Gone now, but it wasn't 150E it was more like 50EUR on edreams or 90EUR on more reputable ota.
:-o I completely missed this
I would go over for a long weekend
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Old Feb 20, 2019, 4:44 am
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Originally Posted by andydd
True, but number of times I have been misguided text FRs and interpretation of FR by ITA in contrast to the ones done by OTA is rather astonishing.

And hence the reason for hope.
Originally Posted by pimpcoltd
f bc=m bc=b bc=y will tell you if there's reason for hope
Actually f bc=s would work but would be suicidal
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Old Feb 21, 2019, 5:53 am
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C1 - C2 with nothing wasted

C1 - C2 4.50 € bf dumpable with flyable and desirable Intra C2 2X.
197,85 €.

Delle Grazie
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Old Feb 21, 2019, 5:58 am
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Old Feb 22, 2019, 3:26 am
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Campagna - Florida 179,86 € All in R / T

Safe construction. No 1X. No 2X , No 2.5X No Open Jaw , No Sandwich, No SKYTEAM.
Substantially cheaper 139,22 € from other airport in same beautiful country
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Old Feb 22, 2019, 3:42 am
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One-Way. Largest city in USA to largest City in France 113,28 € with FREE stop-over.

Stop-Over in wine producing Non-French city.
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Old Feb 22, 2019, 5:13 am
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All these apply for one specific day or you can play around with dates? Because if you are to find a one-specific-day-combination, there is no need to tell us because it is virtually impossible to manage to find it.. Unless you only want to brag about finding it.. Sorry, couldn't code all that and wrote it in free speech language
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Old Feb 22, 2019, 8:33 am
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Originally Posted by MerNion
All these apply for one specific day or you can play around with dates? Because if you are to find a one-specific-day-combination, there is no need to tell us because it is virtually impossible to manage to find it.. Unless you only want to brag about finding it.. Sorry, couldn't code all that and wrote it in free speech language
Not true. Found the BF within minutes.
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Old Feb 22, 2019, 8:56 am
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Originally Posted by WingedWorldExplorer
Stop-Over in wine producing Non-French city.
Got no stop for 102 on their own web site, thx info.
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Old Feb 22, 2019, 9:19 am
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No tricks involved. TAP Air Portugal has it on their site for $115 EWR-LIS-ORY.
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