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
Mar 3, 2017, 8:59 am
#7818
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Florida
Programs: UA 2MM
Posts: 1,917
As an aside, I am making a booking for 2 friends to meet them somewhere (I'm flying from a different city) and I was playing around and I took their $850 RT fare and FD'd it into $343 RT. But here's the thing ... they almost never fly, and one of them has never been out of the USA and doesn't even have a passport yet! So it pains me, but I think I will book them at the $850. I don't want to have to explain how I got the low fare and why there are extra segment(s), and not to call the airline, etc. And it's not my money. 
Mar 3, 2017, 11:25 pm
#7821
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 11
Mar 4, 2017, 2:17 pm
#7822
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 47
Mar 5, 2017, 12:58 am
#7823
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 11
Ahhh, ok ok, I thought it was cheap just because of constuction and not because of strike... So 3x should be used.
Mar 5, 2017, 9:25 pm
#7827
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: LEJ, BOG
Posts: 25
No, he doesnt´t. He is very patriotic and only likes homegrown food. Appears there´s no Bananas in Ethiopia. Maybe I should just do it like the natives and run everywere 
I always thought you guys were being paranoid with the "no share" policy, but now I get it. Was working on a flight with that very airline to get my dad to South Africa. He is too old to run all the way from Europe. Makes me angry, these blogs.
I always thought you guys were being paranoid with the "no share" policy, but now I get it. Was working on a flight with that very airline to get my dad to South Africa. He is too old to run all the way from Europe. Makes me angry, these blogs.
Mar 5, 2017, 11:07 pm
#7828
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: IAD
Posts: 72
