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
May 8, 2018, 1:47 pm
#8927
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
[/QUOTE=SilberPanda]
Nice fare for all who fly the whole itinerary.
For all others I spend a box of Kleenex to dry the tears from airport back to home.
We do not need more reports about denied boarding on this carrier.
The reports during the last months were more than enough.[/QUOTE]
[/QUOTE]Build your network and open your ears (and eyes).[/QUOTE]
Exactly right because this carrier has never denied boarding to anyone. Therefore nothing to report by anyone.
Jumping to incorrect assumptions always leads to wrong answers. Reprimand made based on erroneous assumptions does not make the end result any better.
Nice fare for all who fly the whole itinerary.
For all others I spend a box of Kleenex to dry the tears from airport back to home.
We do not need more reports about denied boarding on this carrier.
The reports during the last months were more than enough.[/QUOTE]
[/QUOTE]Build your network and open your ears (and eyes).[/QUOTE]
Exactly right because this carrier has never denied boarding to anyone. Therefore nothing to report by anyone.
Jumping to incorrect assumptions always leads to wrong answers. Reprimand made based on erroneous assumptions does not make the end result any better.
Last edited by WingedWorldExplorer; May 8, 2018 at 2:05 pm
May 13, 2018, 3:52 am
#8931
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: FRA Im Herzen von Europa
Programs: M&M, IHG
Posts: 78
Exactly right because this carrier has never denied boarding to anyone. Therefore nothing to report by anyone.
Jumping to incorrect assumptions always leads to wrong answers. Reprimand made based on erroneous assumptions does not make the end result any better.[/QUOTE]
This carrier has changed FR lately to avoid FD. To expect they do not longer care is careless. Risk gets higher as before.
Jumping to incorrect assumptions always leads to wrong answers. Reprimand made based on erroneous assumptions does not make the end result any better.[/QUOTE]
This carrier has changed FR lately to avoid FD. To expect they do not longer care is careless. Risk gets higher as before.
May 16, 2018, 2:30 am
#8933
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 87
Hello All,
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
May 16, 2018, 8:45 am
#8934
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
Hello All,
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
Seems to me that you live on MRU. 4 hours from JNB. You are severely hampered in your FD efforts as you simply have very few candidate fares to work with. If you start in JNB, then it is a different world. SW is your friend.
May 16, 2018, 9:44 am
#8936
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: NYC
Programs: DL plat
Posts: 316
Hello All,
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
May 16, 2018, 1:31 pm
#8938
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York Metropolitan Area 45 km from JFK
Programs: UA,AA,AS,BA
Posts: 4,607
Hello All,
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
I'm new to this thread but not to this forum. Finding the whole discussion fascinating although think I have to invest a lot of time before I will be able to successfully construct my own itineraries using these tricks. Before I launch myself down that rabbit-hole, a broad question for all the frequent flyers out there:
Which is a bigger time investment?: Subsidizing your flying through FF point accumulation (as I currently do), or subsidizing it through FD? Keen to hear thoughts!
Cheers,
Oz
P.S. I currently live on an island in C5 so have a lot of incentive to try and reduce prices given there is a monopoly on internal flights and only one provider doing flights to mainland Southern Africa (SAA). Any ideas where I am?
May 16, 2018, 4:09 pm
#8939
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 72
Lately, whenever I buy and actually fly a dumped flight, that particular combination no longer works - gets fixed. It's happened 3 times in the last 12 months, and always on a *A flight.
Has anyone else also noticed this? Is there anyway to avoid this? (this part is just mostly wishful thinking)
Has anyone else also noticed this? Is there anyway to avoid this? (this part is just mostly wishful thinking)
