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
Mar 27, 2023, 2:50 am
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IN other words....
Enlighten me ... sequence was : 1st- fly(X) was skipped, 2nd -main (1st leg) was fluted ,3d-(2nd leg)--was denied?
Mar 27, 2023, 4:19 am
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Mar 27, 2023, 4:32 am
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Mar 27, 2023, 5:50 am
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Im one of who experienced this ....was hard to accept --> BUT, this is the game
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Mar 27, 2023, 6:04 am
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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.
Mar 28, 2023, 12:26 am
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please clarify
it was booked in one price in multi-city? not separate ?
Mar 28, 2023, 2:13 am
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Please go back to my pm
YOUR " suitable for this trick and that it become worthy to search"---you check YQ in MATRIX?
Mar 28, 2023, 4:00 am
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would the same still apply if both legs are checked in and printed in the same boarding pass? Would think that the denial happens if there’s a need to check in progressively
Mar 28, 2023, 4:19 am
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True.. just being curious, what does BF here mean? Been knowing it as base fare but saw it being mentioned a few times recently where it wouldn’t make sense to be so.
Mar 28, 2023, 4:26 am
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Sorry, my typo, I meant BPs (Boarding Passes). What would be better: a) to be denied before flight at A b) to be denied at B c) to be denied at C. Out of three options I would say a) is the least painful case (and it happened many times). The fact that you manage to get some BPs can make things worse (of course I discuss the situation where we know that denial of boarding due to 1X no-show is highly probable).
Mar 29, 2023, 4:19 pm
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Lots of C2-C1 stuff lately but what about some of us who like to spend time enjoy the wide variety of food on Gerrard St at the weekends and want to revisit their origins?
Whilst mentioned frequently on a popular airline's sub-forum here on FT, the adaptation of this technique is a muscle toner working on the foundations as opposed to a fat burner. One specific airport is the common theme to this. Requires a good understanding of how this airline and its fares work. 1x, 3x, 4x... more is not always better. In fact, this trick does not always benefit you and sometimes, keeping it simple is even better. Only useful for those needing/very much wanting to make this trip as whilst the %-saving can be high, the end result is still fairly pricey.
(Not sure how much that's said here will help as I'm not too sure how to code this without giving away too much; happy to accept questions via PM providing you've tried somewhat + heading in the right direction)
Whilst mentioned frequently on a popular airline's sub-forum here on FT, the adaptation of this technique is a muscle toner working on the foundations as opposed to a fat burner. One specific airport is the common theme to this. Requires a good understanding of how this airline and its fares work. 1x, 3x, 4x... more is not always better. In fact, this trick does not always benefit you and sometimes, keeping it simple is even better. Only useful for those needing/very much wanting to make this trip as whilst the %-saving can be high, the end result is still fairly pricey.
(Not sure how much that's said here will help as I'm not too sure how to code this without giving away too much; happy to accept questions via PM providing you've tried somewhat + heading in the right direction)
Mar 30, 2023, 9:53 am
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Enough! Let’s get back on track here.
For the newbies, please refer to the Wiki, particularly, “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).”
For all, be mindful of FlyerTalk Rules, especially Rules 12 and 13, which you can find here: https://www.flyertalk.com/help/rules
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For the newbies, please refer to the Wiki, particularly, “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).”
For all, be mindful of FlyerTalk Rules, especially Rules 12 and 13, which you can find here: https://www.flyertalk.com/help/rules
Pat89339, Moderator
Mileage Run Forums
Last edited by Pat89339; Mar 30, 2023 at 10:09 am