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 23, 2017, 2:16 am
#8626
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 758
Let's do this game. I'm assuming and I really hope* that we are talking about the same airline.
Some weeks ago the same carrier sold c2-mle RT** for 170€ AI. No 1x factor.
*I hope because otherwise I'm giving you a new dump on a silver plate.
** Didn't check if the BFs are still available because weeks ago there was few dates for the lowest fare bucket.
Oct 23, 2017, 9:13 am
#8627
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
All in price drops to 194,72 € if airport origin is in a geologically active area and a Major North American Carrier is used in a proper fashion but not flown.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Oct 23, 2017 at 9:24 am
Oct 23, 2017, 10:49 am
#8628
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 758
Let's do this game. I'm assuming and I really hope* that we are talking about the same airline.
Some weeks ago the same carrier sold c2-mle RT** for 170€ AI. No 1x factor.
*I hope because otherwise I'm giving you a new dump on a silver plate.
** Didn't check if the BFs are still available because weeks ago there was few dates for the lowest fare bucket.
Some weeks ago the same carrier sold c2-mle RT** for 170€ AI. No 1x factor.
*I hope because otherwise I'm giving you a new dump on a silver plate.
** Didn't check if the BFs are still available because weeks ago there was few dates for the lowest fare bucket.
let's continue the game
:Different carrier (different alliance) from the post above, *No stop in C1 with stupid ESTA, c2-c1.5 RT 200€ AI, a strike is used in a proper fashion but not flown.
Oct 25, 2017, 3:50 pm
#8631
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: CT
Posts: 28
Kayak Explore has some interesting C1c-C3 rates popping up. Is it capturing open jaws and not just RT searches? You can't specify fare class in Kayak, and the fares look reasonably dumped down to the BFs +tax, but the lowest buckets all exclude end-on-end. Any insight?
Oct 27, 2017, 9:39 pm
#8636
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
Oct 28, 2017, 5:33 pm
#8637
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
New York to Asia N Open Jaw Asia S New York € 219,88
New York to Asia N Open Jaw Asia S to New York € 219,88 All-in. No 1X.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; Oct 28, 2017 at 6:13 pm
Oct 28, 2017, 10:33 pm
#8638
Join Date: Nov 2014
Programs: Starbucks Gold
Posts: 185
Other options too...
Possible from the west coast as well for 2xx and above and to other airports in C3.
Also on alliance different from deal above, you can go from c1w to c3 the long way and visit 2 continents(one of them c3) and couple of cities in c3 for $6xx. Fuel does get dumped, but BFs are higher on this route. No 1x.
Last edited by Bob Saccamano; Oct 29, 2017 at 6:39 am