Nov 20, 13, 8:48 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
Sep 17, 23, 12:35 am
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Last edited by Pat89339; Sep 17, 23 at 1:19 am Reason: Violation of Rule 18
Sep 17, 23, 7:27 am
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Long time lurker, first time poster here:
I've been experimenting a bit and have found a (meagre) 3x c2-c6, but can't seem to get it to land on any of the powertools OTAs. Any thoughts?
Am happy to give more details if required
I've been experimenting a bit and have found a (meagre) 3x c2-c6, but can't seem to get it to land on any of the powertools OTAs. Any thoughts?
Am happy to give more details if required
Last edited by andreeeeew; Sep 26, 23 at 6:10 pm Reason: Somehow GF did the trick??
Sep 18, 23, 7:13 am
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I found a good EK fare some time back to C6 (and am looking for something similar in Feb-Apr if anyone is feeling generous) but couldn't get it to work, good to know the above as could position for a 1x where I am.
Sep 18, 23, 7:24 am
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Sep 18, 23, 7:38 am
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This is one of the easiest dumps there is, just watch out for base fares to drop as they're pretty ridiculous right now.
Sep 18, 23, 9:16 am
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Sep 26, 23, 11:44 am
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The thread has re-opened. Please review the Rules of Posting to this thread which are in a sticky at the top of this subforum. Here is a handy link:
Posting Rules for the "Trick-It" Thread
Pat89339, Moderator
Mileage Run Forum
Posting Rules for the "Trick-It" Thread
Pat89339, Moderator
Mileage Run Forum
Sep 28, 23, 4:23 pm
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I think we all want to save money. But no, this threat is not about Skiplag*ing.
Last edited by EmailKid; Sep 28, 23 at 6:17 pm
