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
Apr 30, 2023, 7:52 pm
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Fairly sure I have found the fare, $1 BF, multiple routes possible. No luck thus far on the OTA. Do you have any tips? Is it a currency glitch on the OTA too or native site pricing in the C2 currency?
May 1, 2023, 10:43 am
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Found 342, certainly more room to trim as you say. Wouldn't mind finding something a little more convenient to fly though
May 1, 2023, 2:42 pm
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Managed to get 2 x C1-C2 tickets for late Sep and as well as late October respectively.
Excellent positioning flight to/from other intercontinental Round Trip originating in C2
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; May 1, 2023 at 3:30 pm
May 1, 2023, 3:02 pm
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Two days ago it was $ 152.75 R/T 100 % horizontal lie down seat on the airline sharing code with essential human food-to-energy vitamin.
Managed to get 2 x C1-C2 tickets for late Sep and as well as late October respectively.
Excellent positioning flight to/from other intercontinental Round Trip originating in C2
Managed to get 2 x C1-C2 tickets for late Sep and as well as late October respectively.
Excellent positioning flight to/from other intercontinental Round Trip originating in C2
May 1, 2023, 3:17 pm
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May 1, 2023, 3:25 pm
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Hint: Mostly intra and inter island flights but specifically NOT self-dump.
Doing so would have given you Economy Class and not Business Class.
"Gotta strike when the iron is hot" as they say.
Booked on Expedia.com (Correction) 4 days ago (time flies by) .
ETIX with horizontal seats in 03F and 08F issued immediately.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; May 1, 2023 at 3:51 pm
May 1, 2023, 3:27 pm
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3x? Surprised you got it on expedia days ago. Well done!
May 1, 2023, 3:28 pm
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May 1, 2023, 3:31 pm
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lol such pessimism, the kind of pessimism only found on flyertalk. This carrier has loaded and unloaded great fares more often than I have had steak dinners. <$330 is still available (<$250 per trip if you double stack) and it will surely get better again.
