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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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Mar 26, 23, 10:10 pm

#10921

Timidocvl

Join Date: Jun 2014

Location: RIC

Programs: SPG, AA, United, Delta

Posts: 98

Let's talk business. Usa-c2 for $1k rt peak summer and beyond. No toilet paper or vitamin b 6 for this trick. Alliance carriers and strikes relatively usable that don't require you to go to c7.

Slightly lower price possible but usually less practical if you planning to use the combination.

Yesterday, 2:50 am

#10922

MTOP

Join Date: Jan 2023

Posts: 16

IN other words....

Quote:

Originally Posted by man4business

Good joke. There are also persons here who can share the experience of being denied boarding just after flying the first leg - and yes, the 1X was the same day this is why geting BF was possible (before skipping 1X).

Enlighten me ... sequence was : 1st- fly(X) was skipped, 2nd -main (1st leg) was fluted ,3d-(2nd leg)--was denied?

Yesterday, 4:19 am

#10923

andydd

Join Date: Jul 2016

Posts: 135

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTOP

Enlighten me ... sequence was : 1st- fly(X) was skipped, 2nd -main (1st leg) was fluted ,3d-(2nd leg)--was denied?

I suggest you book a dump with german swan with the above mentioned construction and you be self enlightened..

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Yesterday, 4:32 am

#10924

man4business

Join Date: May 2014

Location: KRK

Posts: 312

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTOP

sequence was

Yes, 1X (same day), then the main flight from A to C, made of two flights, AB - BC / rt (where B is the airline hub). Issuing BP for 1X and AB was possible before skipping 1X and AB worked. Then at the B airport boarding to BC was denied due to 1X no-show.

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Yesterday, 5:50 am

#10925

karlot_96

Join Date: Sep 2017

Location: CDG, ORY

Posts: 105

Quote:

Originally Posted by man4business

Im one of who experienced this ....was hard to accept --> BUT, this is the game

Last edited by karlot_96; Yesterday at 6:21 am Reason: ediiiit

Yesterday, 6:04 am

#10926

ashfr

Join Date: Mar 2023

Location: PAR

Posts: 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by WingedWorldExplorer

I think you have just made the precise argument why pursuing this hobby is not time efficient for you.
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1. Counter intuitively, CDG as airport of Origin is generally the exception to AF dumpability,
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I believe that I have understand which kind of flights you are suggesting to FD with AF and departure in CDG. There are few destinations from CDG (C1e only) and BF is too high for being worthy from CDG, but it could work from other departure.

Quote:

Originally Posted by man4business

ashf 1. checking various OTAs has nothing to do with currency glitch as well as it is irrelevant which currency you display. If ITA Matrix Powertools does not work then you have a problem: you can install it etierh as a web browser extension (e.g. most popular chrome) but also as a script via another extension Tampermonkey. If you do not see your ITA result quickly in kayak, momondo, or skyscanner, then you have to check also various countries. Then, the other groups of OTAs (all are seen within the working properly powertools). There are really many, and surpriosingly, only one and in a specific country could work. 2. finding 3X (or anything else) means that you discovered a proper airline and country (usually departure country). The optimization comes later, you can totally separately look for one way lowest fare for a given airline within a given country etc. Then, to apply the cheapest to your main fare.

It works ! Thank you. I get a 3X but the FD ticket is not really worthy compared to the current sales made for instance by AF. I notice that when I add my 3X, the classification fare is upgraded in ITA. Therefore the bargain is not really worthy : it only allows me to have a checked luggage and few bucks less.