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
Jun 15, 2023, 11:01 am
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Damn you guys watch them like a hawk. You're right though, I see it now. Well in any case, it still works. How long has this strike been working, 15+ years??
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Low $400 is possible. Keep going.
(stopover a week for sun tanning possible, price refer to other expert's recommendation below)
This may not last long - YOU KNOW WHO said.
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Jun 15, 2023, 2:59 pm
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I paid $ 223.45 three months ago when base fares were lower. And stopped mid-pacific on return.
Jun 15, 2023, 3:46 pm
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Now THAT is worth the 5 hour positioning flight. I'm gonna be ripping my hair out all night trying to find this. Thanks for the nudge.
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there's a PDF on computational complexity of flight routings - it's a chapter of some course at MIT
search: Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Carl de Marcken ITA Software (51 pages)
the search space is massive, unless you're working with someone here that knows how to prune the space (either very well defined heuristics, or they understand the rules that's causing the pricing systems to drop the YQ) - you'll be burning money on compute
search: Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Carl de Marcken ITA Software (51 pages)
the search space is massive, unless you're working with someone here that knows how to prune the space (either very well defined heuristics, or they understand the rules that's causing the pricing systems to drop the YQ) - you'll be burning money on compute
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Jun 18, 2023, 1:50 pm
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I can't believe it actually worked. Missed the deal to C2.5 but I got this one. After so many failures and aimlessly searching I felt like it was all a hoax.
No stop for me because of limited time off but I got a pair for 3forty7 each. Couldn't find the 296 from man4business but I'm okay with a tip
Thanks hotcarl69 and WingedWorldExplorer
No stop for me because of limited time off but I got a pair for 3forty7 each. Couldn't find the 296 from man4business but I'm okay with a tip
Thanks hotcarl69 and WingedWorldExplorer
Jun 18, 2023, 1:56 pm
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Is there a particular booking engine to look for these? Hopefully this is an okay question. Couldn’t find it addressed in the thread or wiki.
