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
Aug 6, 2021, 8:37 am
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Still any hope on this ?
Same airline, different routes, different strike (previous one doesn't work anymore) - safe construction
C1E to C2W/city of lights starting fron 210€ RT
C2W/C (different country) to C1E 175€
Strike is a bit on the expensive side, I'm looking for a new one - but still an intresting dump nonetheless
C1E to C2W/city of lights starting fron 210€ RT
C2W/C (different country) to C1E 175€
Strike is a bit on the expensive side, I'm looking for a new one - but still an intresting dump nonetheless
Aug 23, 2021, 9:30 am
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Just got ticketed from USA to Firenze Italy for $
I could have started in California too.
I could have started in California too.
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Aug 23, 2021, 9:33 am
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I have found out the hard way that Firenze is not a good airport for tricks. A lot of flights to/from Firenze get canceled due to weather and it requires the airline to dig in to your reservation. Unless it is a 3x or flown 1x I wouldn't risk it
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Aug 23, 2021, 1:21 pm
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I have taken all that into consideration and avoided pitfalls. Its not even their ticket. Nothing is against anyone's rules and nothing will "Stick Out"
Aug 23, 2021, 7:14 pm
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PS: For purposes of clarity: My comment above was in No way whatsoever referring to You personally or Your posting but simply to airline employees.
I respect you from the past and I deleted to avoid possible mis-understanding
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Aug 23, 2021 at 7:35 pm
Aug 23, 2021, 7:34 pm
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Amazing how so-called adult professionals spend 1000s of hours to write 273 pages of instructions on how to charge purely fictitious charges. Charges that are arbitrary and do not in any way relate to ANY actual goods or services rendered. Problem is that you picked the wrong airline.
PS: For purposes of clarity: My comment above was in No way whatsoever referring to You personally or Your posting but simply to airline employees
PS: For purposes of clarity: My comment above was in No way whatsoever referring to You personally or Your posting but simply to airline employees
LoL no WWE it’s not that airline… but I’ll look into it once you mentioned already
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Aug 25, 2021, 5:10 pm
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Carrier combination
Two major carriers will take you from C4 to C2, give you a long stop-over in Southern Europe, and return you to C4 or home of the Patriots for as low as £203.33.
No 1X.
No 1X.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Aug 25, 2021 at 5:20 pm
Aug 25, 2021, 5:13 pm
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Aug 27, 2021, 12:54 pm
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C4-C2 (Y); C2-C2 (J); C2-C4 (Y), total: 188€
the second leg shows as Business class when booking on the airline's website, i haven't booked, so can't confirm it will really book into Business.
Aug 27, 2021, 1:09 pm
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C1-C5 284€
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Sep 3, 2021, 6:38 pm
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USA to Eastern European Capital
$256.35 All-in Round Trip.
Continuation with stop-over to Athens or Thessaloniki or Cyprus possible for a few $ more.
Very flyable Inter-Continental 3X from USA *
Continuation with stop-over to Athens or Thessaloniki or Cyprus possible for a few $ more.
Very flyable Inter-Continental 3X from USA *
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Sep 6, 2021 at 3:58 pm Reason: * Included in All-in price above