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
Feb 2, 2024, 12:19 am
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 155
I can't believe what I'm reading. It seems that the blog, which literally ruined through its extreme greed, a lot of great deals, "isn't so bad", because by some miracle one of the schemes sold still works. Well, let's leave them alone, or maybe remind them that they can still sell it again.
its not about "isnt so bad"
its about them usually pulling their ebook from sale very quickly which means some tricks stay alive. so the notion of revealing the dump in this thread as a way to combat/punish them doesnt make much sense.
we'll only be shooting ourselves in the foot as the trick will 100% be killed within hours if shared here.
Feb 23, 2024, 6:17 pm
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: PNW
Programs: AS, DL, Hilton, Hyatt, Marriot
Posts: 14
Found a workable fare from C1W to C3S in time for spring break. Good luck finding a strike. I don't have one either haha.
Edit: since this happened to me last time I shared. Unless you have a strike to share I won't respond to your messages
Edit: since this happened to me last time I shared. Unless you have a strike to share I won't respond to your messages
Feb 23, 2024, 6:43 pm
Join Date: May 2023
Posts: 1
Last edited by 55minutes; Feb 23, 2024 at 9:17 pm Reason: deleted specific details to protect the FD
Feb 26, 2024, 6:24 pm
formerly chrisbarnett01
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 350
There’s only a small handful of knowledgeable people posting clues to deals here and a few thousand lurkers. Even the people who work out the methodology rarely are rarely posting 12 months later. Maybe there like me and prefer to travel in J, or maybe they start selling Ebooks.
I still like to search for dumps as a hobby, and I've been lurking here for long time since my last post. Currently looking for an open jaw for the 2024 euro matches for a friend. Found some candidates but dunno the appropriate strikes.
Some of my old strikes still work but not for this routing.
I stopped flying tricked routes because I got married, and my wife isn't willing to gamble on booking a vacation around a FD. I still enjoy the hobby of searching. And maybe one day I'll take a flight with some friends and they will be totally cool with FDing.
Last edited by Hairbus380; Feb 27, 2024 at 11:55 am
Feb 28, 2024, 4:28 pm
Join Date: Dec 2022
Location: YQB
Posts: 27
It's a trade place here? If someone had a chat with you or trust you, he will give you some hints or infos on whatever FD. It's not against you but you can be working for SF or else. During the last year, lot of crap happened to FD so even if I might know something about C2-C3 or else, I don't think I will share it with anyone except some people that I've shown to be some kind of ''guardians of the FD' or people I think I can trust..
Last edited by Pat89339; Feb 28, 2024 at 5:20 pm Reason: Rule 16 edit
Mar 15, 2024, 4:20 pm
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 3,032
There are some low base fares on the DUB flights but looks like the rules don't allow any end on end or add-ons so haven't had much success. Would be curious if anyone else has had.
Last edited by Pat89339; Mar 15, 2024 at 6:54 pm Reason: Confirm edited quote
Mar 15, 2024, 4:22 pm
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: NYC
Programs: QF LTG
Posts: 1,200
Yup, no EOE generally prevents a dump but we know thats not always the case in practice. Northing I have tried yet has dumped it.
Mar 18, 2024, 9:19 pm
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SAT
Programs: AA EXP BA Gold, TK Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AS 100K, QR PLT, SAS Gold, IHG Spire, AMR
Posts: 5,898
I just traveled on JFK-AMS RT on Sunday.. Candy condition. Somebody else just left JFK yesterday in the same condition.