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
Oct 24, 2023, 2:10 pm
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Any chance of dumping that nice fare of FM BUD - NGB? Chinese airlines used to be friendly for partial/total discounts in pre-covid times, however they are currently appearing less friendly. Thanks for any potential help/directions.
Oct 25, 2023, 2:37 pm
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Great way to kill a thread.
Last edited by Pat89339; Oct 25, 2023 at 6:55 pm Reason: TOS 18
Oct 25, 2023, 2:47 pm
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In this (very specific) thread, all you should receive and accept is a cryptic piece of information, e.g., C1-C3 /ow 156 USD a.i. (I provide you with a real, working example). With even this hint, seemingly limited at first glance, I feel uneasy because Secret Flying is going to market literally everything, regardless of the fact that they may kill the deal within hours or days. This is the crux: the high popularity of lucrative deals is lethal to them. People not involved in FD fragility do not understand it, and they assume it doesn't matter - yes, it indeed matters if the deal is exposed or even sold.
Oct 26, 2023, 12:53 pm
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Flash sale 9 hours remaining
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$397
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$684
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$493
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$844
Rumor has it one of these can be simplified down to $XXX
Shoutout to @SourSweetTea for helping optimize this deal. Good luck to all!
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$397
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$684
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$493
CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$844
Rumor has it one of these can be simplified down to $XXX
Shoutout to @SourSweetTea for helping optimize this deal. Good luck to all!
Last edited by Gongoozler; Oct 26, 2023 at 11:57 pm Reason: Still alive???
Oct 26, 2023, 3:45 pm
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Was able to get c2-c1-c2-c1 in J for ~$2500 which is not too bad for 2 rt in J but still not as good of a deal as above
Shoutout Gongoozler for the pointer!.. will keep going at it till figure it out!
*pardon me being a a noob and got the direction wrong in my original post
Shoutout Gongoozler for the pointer!.. will keep going at it till figure it out!
*pardon me being a a noob and got the direction wrong in my original post
Last edited by metal bird; Oct 26, 2023 at 3:51 pm Reason: got the direction wrong in my original post
Oct 27, 2023, 6:53 am
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CX-CX
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$397
Rumor has it one of these can be simplified down to $XXX
Shoutout to @SourSweetTea for helping optimize this deal. Good luck to all!
CX-CX RT LIE-FLAT BIZ
$397
Rumor has it one of these can be simplified down to $XXX
Shoutout to @SourSweetTea for helping optimize this deal. Good luck to all!
and also bought a
1X based from my hometown airport for £ 98.75 R/T Seats 2F and 4 F.
will cancel the 3X based within the 24 hour window because I believe the 1X is skippable.
@ £ 98.75 R/T there is not so much to loose if I am wrong.
It seems gone for now but will probably come back since this airline is notorious for posting ultra low Base Fares for its "front of the cabin" seats.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Oct 27, 2023 at 7:21 am
Oct 27, 2023, 7:02 am
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I bought with x3 last night for €226
Oct 27, 2023, 7:54 am
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Oct 27, 2023, 4:53 pm
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So, from the Rules of Posting in the Trick It Thread at the first page, it gives the following definition:
So, I decoded your code as follow:
C2n is the airport in Northern Europe
C5 is the airport in Africa (Not the airport in the Middle East including Israel and Egypt which is C2.5)
C3e is the airport in East Asia
Do I understand your code correctly?
So, I looked at the Wikipedia and it gives me the following countries:
Northern Europe includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe
East Asia includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia
Africa includes all countries in Africa Continent except the countries that defied as Middle East, including Israel and Egypt
Middle East:
I do have to ask you about your code again since I have been trying and looking for the Base Fare and found nothing closes to the price that you posted, I just want to make sure that I am in the right direction or do you mean something lest?
Thank you very much for posting the trick!
Below are the new posting rules for the Trick It Thread. They will also be posted as a Sticky in the Discussion Forum and in the first post of this thread.
Rules of Posting in the Trick It Thread:
1. Adhere to these rules or your post will be deleted without comment.
2. The current naming convention of this thread is as follows:
C1 = North America
C1.5 = Caribbean, Central America and Mexico including Bermuda and Bahamas
C2 = Europe
C2.5 = Middle East, including Israel and Egypt
C3 = Asia
C4 = South America
C4a = Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
C4b = Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Surinam, Guyana, Paraguay and Uruguay
C5 = Africa
C6 = Australia, New Zealand, and the Oceania range
Directional additions such as n, s, e, and w are allowed to narrow an area.
Rules of Posting in the Trick It Thread:
1. Adhere to these rules or your post will be deleted without comment.
2. The current naming convention of this thread is as follows:
C1 = North America
C1.5 = Caribbean, Central America and Mexico including Bermuda and Bahamas
C2 = Europe
C2.5 = Middle East, including Israel and Egypt
C3 = Asia
C4 = South America
C4a = Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
C4b = Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Surinam, Guyana, Paraguay and Uruguay
C5 = Africa
C6 = Australia, New Zealand, and the Oceania range
Directional additions such as n, s, e, and w are allowed to narrow an area.
C2n is the airport in Northern Europe
C5 is the airport in Africa (Not the airport in the Middle East including Israel and Egypt which is C2.5)
C3e is the airport in East Asia
Do I understand your code correctly?
So, I looked at the Wikipedia and it gives me the following countries:
Northern Europe includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe
East Asia includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia
Africa includes all countries in Africa Continent except the countries that defied as Middle East, including Israel and Egypt
Middle East:
By the mid-20th century a common definition of the Middle East encompassed the states or territories of Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and the various states and territories of Arabia proper (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, or Trucial Oman [now United Arab Emirates]).
https://www.britannica.com/place/Middle-East
https://www.britannica.com/place/Middle-East
Thank you very much for posting the trick!