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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 Aug 19, 2020, 11:35 pm
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Originally Posted by jorun
26,07€
25,03€
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Old Aug 19, 2020, 11:56 pm
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Originally Posted by javi1980
I get 165€ withouth X factor. Im in the correct way?
Why don't you do directly a test? If you find a similar dumped price, it means that probably you found the correct way.
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Old Aug 21, 2020, 2:12 am
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C2-C4n (exotic destination), 8 pointed star cuts now 100% YR. £293. No risk!
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Old Aug 21, 2020, 2:17 am
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Originally Posted by Euro404
C2-C4 Business 623€ RT or Oneway C4-C2 Business 384€.
X Factor is Business, I guess with the right settings and X Factor in Y sub 500€ could be possible.

btw: C2-C4 Y 91€ return
Y is not bookable for this price with this particular strike.
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Last edited by bartas8891; Aug 21, 2020 at 4:43 am
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Old Aug 21, 2020, 2:44 pm
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BIZ (5* airline) C2-C6e also Xmas/NYear and half of '21 (sure if Covid allows to enter at all).
ITA price €1,463.17... well if you find OTA let me know ;-p
Edit: OTA price
1409,61
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Last edited by man4business; Aug 22, 2020 at 4:10 pm Reason: OTA found
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Old Aug 24, 2020, 5:21 am
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Originally Posted by man4business
BIZ (5* airline) C2-C6e also Xmas/NYear and half of '21 (sure if Covid allows to enter at all).
ITA price €1,463.17... well if you find OTA let me know ;-p
Edit: OTA price
1409,61
Your PM is full.

Fancy a beer in KRK in 2 weeks? Would love to chat with someone here.
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Old Aug 24, 2020, 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by bartas8891
C2-C4n (exotic destination), 8 pointed star cuts now 100% YR. £293. No risk!
We talked about this dump a few weeks ago for approx. 180 Euro.
Please do not post too often.

Actually less than £270 is possible
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Old Aug 24, 2020, 1:43 pm
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Are you sure that we are talking about the same thing?
To confirm find two eigenvalues of the following matrix and add them up, finally, add 55.3081

The obtained value will give you the latitude (N) of the departure airport. Works only from that airport.
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Old Aug 25, 2020, 2:45 am
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How have you printed it here? :-) Ahhh.... image.
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Old Aug 25, 2020, 3:06 am
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Silberpanda It turns out that we are talking about the same thing. Shame I missed that 180e
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Old Aug 26, 2020, 2:24 am
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C2-C5s 125 euro a.i.
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Old Aug 26, 2020, 10:27 am
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Originally Posted by man4business
C2-C5s 125 euro a.i.
Do you mind sharing some more details, your PM is full.
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Old Aug 26, 2020, 4:20 pm
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Normally, what has been written is enough or even too much. But ok: TRAVEL FROM LAST STOPOVER MUST COMMENCE NO EARLIER THAN 4 DAYS AFTER DEPARTURE FROM FARE ORIGIN. On the other hand side, in pursuit of a lower price, another airline, almost the same route and the same X-factor - 95 82 euro a.i.
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Last edited by man4business; Aug 28, 2020 at 3:37 pm
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Old Aug 26, 2020, 4:31 pm
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C2-C3 for 82 69 euro a.i. (the same airline and departure airport as in above C2-C5s example).
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Last edited by man4business; Aug 28, 2020 at 3:50 pm Reason: Another airport - price adjusted
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Old Aug 28, 2020, 3:58 am
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Originally Posted by man4business
C2-C3 for 82 euro a.i. (the same airline and departure airport as in above C2-C5s example).
Could you please give me some more hints for this one?

Is it C3se (South East) or C3e (East) ?

The Airlines are the Middle East or European or Asian?

I often travel to C3 every year.

Thank you very much for your answers in advance.
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