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 3, 2019, 7:33 am
#9722
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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
Sure it is not. He even said so explicitly in posting.
NOHONOLONOUUU As I can tell there is No Cold Weather involved in either end. I am getting close to same price with some effort this morning.
Its always the same methodology.
1. Find C2-C3 airports and specific dates with lowest BF.
2. Look at your inventory of past FDs for this carrier.
3. Then place the X factor in the optimal position on the most "agreeable" OTA.
If correct, I would consider it medium risk, but somewhat manageable. If anyone here has zero tolerance for risk, then its better to stay away.
So AA , UA and DL and BA and IB have the same 3Xs or other Xs working for over 11 years now. If so smart , they would have had enough time to fix.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 3, 2019 at 12:06 pm
Sep 3, 2019, 12:19 pm
#9724
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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
I think this one is the same as #9632 (still available, limited), isn't it? Depending on the precision of the term "SE"
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 3, 2019 at 12:27 pm
Sep 3, 2019, 4:54 pm
#9725
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 145
The rest other carriers which haven't changed the tables yet have tightened the section #10 or #12 to make it even harder to find a viable combo.
So yeah.. it's only a matter of priority..if and when the airline decides to change the game.. We already know very well what happened to the carriers in Ottomon and the Alps . Another luxury carrier also changed the FR overnight ..taking away yet another easy to price universal dump ex C2.
Of course, where there's a will.. there's a way! But repeated exposure and advertisement of well established tricks will only lead to earlier demise than later.
Last edited by andydd; Sep 3, 2019 at 4:56 pm Reason: Typo
Sep 4, 2019, 4:29 am
#9726
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 412
C2-C3, 171 €, 5*Airline
Last edited by man4business; Sep 4, 2019 at 6:05 am
Sep 4, 2019, 6:37 am
#9727
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: CDG, ORY
Posts: 116
Sep 4, 2019, 7:13 am
#9728
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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
C2(C)-C3(SE) 54,24 Euros All in R T on OPODO
Not much to loose.
45,60 € possible for less attractive city pairs on less reputable OTA.
45,60 € possible for less attractive city pairs on less reputable OTA.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 4, 2019 at 8:09 am
Sep 5, 2019, 1:29 am
#9730
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: MHG
Posts: 168
Fun times, unfortunately not possible like that anymore.
Sep 5, 2019, 2:13 am
#9731
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: MHG
Posts: 168
Sep 6, 2019, 3:18 am
#9732
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: MAN,POZ
Programs: Tinder Plus
Posts: 116
No offence but now you're playing the Opodo game that in fact you are not good at it.