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
Jul 28, 2016, 5:37 pm
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Jul 29, 2016, 5:33 am
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Jul 29, 2016, 8:05 am
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Jul 29, 2016, 9:21 am
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We had it in FT all along 
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milea...of-270-sn.html
Maybe folks should remember to look at MR deals first.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milea...of-270-sn.html
Maybe folks should remember to look at MR deals first.
Jul 31, 2016, 10:33 pm
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Its not a question of "misvalidations" being shut down by blogs. Pretty much every case of a misvalidation is a unique oversight by an OTA and their back office setting up proper validations with the GDS provider and each individual airline.
OTAs don't misvalidate on purpose and if they do they find out soon enough by spiked bookings and ADMs.
There's no reason to keep FDs caused by misvalidations a secret because they are short lived and local. They aren't like error fares that are across the board and best not to expose widely.
Real FDs are rule based and should be kept real close to the vest.
OTAs don't misvalidate on purpose and if they do they find out soon enough by spiked bookings and ADMs.
There's no reason to keep FDs caused by misvalidations a secret because they are short lived and local. They aren't like error fares that are across the board and best not to expose widely.
Real FDs are rule based and should be kept real close to the vest.
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Aug 1, 2016, 10:28 am
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In one case it has to be 1X, 2X with 1X into USA and the 2X from USA-C4.
1X and 2X carrier are different and dates do not have to be the same.
Therefore a USA stop-over is created between 1X and 2X
Neither works independently and there has to be a carrier switch.in USA.
The blogs also seem to have missed the Scandinavia-Andalusia one-way flight for $ 4,75 I bought 3 yesterday for total all-in price of $ 14.25 Excellent positioning flight for catching a 1X back to Scandinavia, which gives me an incredible deal to Seychelles in cold and rainy February here in NYC.
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Aug 1, 2016, 11:06 am
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Doesn't matter what caused it, keep it quiet and you might be surprised how long those deals can last.
Aug 2, 2016, 11:13 am
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Expedia special to Phuket 111.22 All-in Open jaw
Expedia special to Phuket from Non-C3 111.22 All-in OJ.
Return from Bangkok. Trick but no coupon.
Return from Bangkok. Trick but no coupon.
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Aug 2, 2016, 11:46 am
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Aug 2, 2016, 12:59 pm
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Aug 2, 2016, 1:10 pm
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