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
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Dec 20, 2022, 5:39 pm
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Learning, reading and learning! Stopover: can make stop over on certain airlines websites but how to do it on a OTA to get about the same result (airlines and flights) ....Tried multi city search on some OTA but it gives 3 flights for exemple that are to be booked separatly. I know that I have to check if stopover is permitted, etc...But back to basic... my understanding of english is kinda crappy so I don't know what means this: TRAVEL MUST BE VIA THE POINT OF COMBINATION ????. Does it mean that for exemple of you go from AAA to BBB then back to AAA, the point of combination is BBB? or point of combination means something else?
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I have to find that recipe :-) sorry wrong button (quick replay) ...tried reply to wwe* post below
National well known carrier.
C2 - C1 - C2 in 2023 High Season can be done for almost free ( Even July 4th) , if you consider value of the food and drinks you can consume at lounge prior to C2 departure.
"Free" means:
Base cost extremely low.
In fact so low I will give one ticket away to someone who I trust and who actually needs it. Just taxes.
Routing and length of stay are very limiting factors.
National well known carrier.
C2 - C1 - C2 in 2023 High Season can be done for almost free ( Even July 4th) , if you consider value of the food and drinks you can consume at lounge prior to C2 departure.
"Free" means:
Base cost extremely low.
Routing and length of stay are very limiting factors.
Dec 22, 2022, 4:28 pm
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Unique European adventure this spring
C1-C2 RT $260
2 free stopovers
Visit additional cities for $8.96 each
Book before December 31st
Available from Canada for a few $ more
C1-C2 RT $260
2 free stopovers
Visit additional cities for $8.96 each
Book before December 31st
Available from Canada for a few $ more
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Oh good!! Thanks. For OJ, returning out of France, had success with google flight...Ita not so friendly for search Ive done.
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You are probably talking about a non - flyable throw away 3X in non C1.
A 3X by definition is Non-Contiguous between end of RT and 3X.
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Every other Friday we’ll provide hints to the best working fuel dumps. :-(
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is that because the airline fixed it or the fare just ended?
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Yes, they ruined the deal [--] very quickly. What do you expect in such a case?
secretflying is full of idiots who will sacrify literally everything for clickbait, and now even selling "the deals"; the only hope is that poeople will be a bit more cautious about flying / not flying 1x; and btw, they are even not good at it, it they were, they would notice it a few months ago for about $620 a.i.
secretflying is full of idiots who will sacrify literally everything for clickbait, and now even selling "the deals"; the only hope is that poeople will be a bit more cautious about flying / not flying 1x; and btw, they are even not good at it, it they were, they would notice it a few months ago for about $620 a.i.
Last edited by man4business; Dec 23, 2022 at 12:55 pm Reason: let secret remains secret lol