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
Feb 11, 2021, 6:58 am
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Hi everyone. I just created this account today because my last account username included my name which probably isn't the best idea for this thread. I'm from Canada but just started going to University in Europe so I've been using my quarantine time here to study this thread. I was super excited yesterday when I found my first 3x that worked! Now I'm working on WWE's last post as I think it can get me home for a cousins wedding. Long story short, from what I've read fuel dumping takes a lot more effort these days so I just wanted to say thanks to those who still post on this thread. I would have been hopeless had I just found out about fuel dumping from a blog and not had this resource. Maybe in a couple months I can actually post a deal on this thread. Thanks again!
Routing is not most direct, so probably not worth searching for.
SPAIN/Portugal fares to USA(JFK/BOS) and Canada ( YYZ and YUL) are now so low and with very little YQ attached that net savings from dumping will be very low. Reading about Fuel Dumping on blogs is useless. Whenever in the past they gone into ANY detail they have been attacked, so not they just give a useless generalized description,
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Feb 18, 2021 at 6:58 am Reason: Found additional 3Xs
Feb 16, 2021, 12:37 am
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Routing is not most direct, so probably not worth searching for. In the entire world I have only found 1ONE 3X which works for this carrier - so forget it.
SPAIN/Portugal fares to USA(JFK/BOS) and Canada ( YYZ and YUL) are now so low and with very little YQ attached that net savings from dumping will be very low. Reading about Fuel Dumping on blogs is useless. Whenever in the past they gone into ANY detail they have been attacked, so not they just give a useless generalized description,
SPAIN/Portugal fares to USA(JFK/BOS) and Canada ( YYZ and YUL) are now so low and with very little YQ attached that net savings from dumping will be very low. Reading about Fuel Dumping on blogs is useless. Whenever in the past they gone into ANY detail they have been attacked, so not they just give a useless generalized description,
The little tips in each of your posts have added up to a nice portfolio...
Feb 16, 2021, 6:00 am
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Then there are lots of "Me Too" commentary postings with neither Context nor Content and with no Informational Value whatsoever.
Using the term "Fare" implies that its a mistake fare and/or a fare which can only be found on a certain "secret" OTA.
Good Fares belong somewhere else.
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Feb 17, 2021, 4:27 am
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I definitely didn't mean that, but you are correct.
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