jorun

I feel very good my friend. My first intention was just to let you and other people to post their finding and improve the deal. So you should reconsider the word "pointless".

What can you tell me about the other two posts? Did you figure them out?

bugss

I did not. I tried, but my skill apparently are not good enough.

But, on the other hand, I wonder if anyone did? This one, as well as all the other tricks you are “sharing” in this thread? If not, they are in fact pointless! Regardless of your real intentions

jorun

well I hope for you that they will go on blogs but in that case I don't think they will honor the deals

normally if there is something that people can't find or understand, they will always say "pointless" because it's the only way to justify their limited skills.

Another general tip is to never believe to people who come from nowwhere and claim about tricks/mistakes/whatever

skunker

That's ALWAYS been your problem: you think this is a competition. I remember when you came here asking for help; now its a peen measuring contest for you.

I don't need your tricks. Its great you are able to find so many deals, but you should fly them instead of challenging people to find them or beat you.

FLA77

Agree with your points, skunker. Some folks on this forum (a couple I can think of) take themselves way too seriously (or want people to take them seriously), and offer not much of value and show ill placed contempt to others. I now simply ignore their posts, and move on to the next.

Personally, while I may not have a fraction of the knowledge of some of the forum contributors (and I mean contributors, and not just merely posters like myself ), thanks to folks who have helped me along the way, I have gained enough knowledge to find more tricked itineraries that I could possibly use. I fact, in the past year, I have booked two trips that I ended up not taking, and one more coming up in August that I will likely not be able to take. I have also tried to pay back to the forum members by sharing some working strikes with people in return.

This is a challenge, yes. and there are contributors like WWE who provide enough information for someone like me to get started and go by, which makes it fun.

My point is "$100 first class, beat that" is just waste of digital ink, and in my opinion to be ignored.

geelgors

This is my take on recent discussion.

The intellectual challenge and rewards of a thrill when finding something? For me this is about cheap flying! Lets not fool ourselves. Most tricks all have the same basic construction with a wide variation on how to get the pricing engines confused about origin and destination or both and/or how to combine those 2+ fares. If one trick (combo) dies usually you move on to the next which would be VERY similar to the first etc. Honestly it is not rocket science. What you do need to spend time on is learning ITA Matrix and reading some parts of the (wider) fare rules for example which airlines have interline agreements on Expert Flyer. The last can save you lots of time.

Do not code base fares? Well especially to trick premium cabines you either need those low base fares or mistakingly filed base fares so those are in fact very valuable to know and find. Or flexible routes rules of course.They all die fast. Good candidates fares (with potential fare rules) are very useful and valuable.

There is a lot of people fishing on this forum who pose as experienced or long time contributors and experts. But most of the time the discussion here is about the above two points. Well look at me!

Not too long ago someone posted a trick for premium cabins on all routes of an airline. So why share that? If it is such a great and flexible trick it is only harmful to share it. The more people use a trick the more likely it is that it will get noted. Lets say you can fly business class from C to places for 100 euro. And then you book that lets say 10 times to turn your euros in to Alaska mileage points? You think staff is not going to note that guy/gal again? I presume btw that specific trick (prem cabin all routes) is a trick in a loyalty reward booking system. Lifemiles for example.

The 3 posts with the intention for other people to find the trick and improve on it (lol) if with honest intentions (I doubt those) and given the fact that the destinations are South America and Europe (do you really think public available coding would throw back people working at airlines?) would basically leave open 3 continents for departure/origin as we can sure agree Middle East is too close to Europe to get the mileage referred in fact using some basic triangulation most likely the origin is NW North America also given the mileage distance to both Southern South America and SE Europe. If these assumptions are wrong the post was probably not with the right intentions because the number of potential routes would be too large.

toby16custom

Hey guys, been a while since the $387 NYC MXP PRG PEK deal

Back to hunting. Finding a city with a big mall C1-> a frank little town C2 and then home from a lucky dark beer city C2 back to the big mall C1. Saw it was around $402 on a stroop waffle on Tuesday but that fare isnt showing anymore.

looking spring april/may 19 if anyone has any love for me i'd appreciate. Not a ton a fat to cut but id be pretty happy with a sub $470 fare to book via UR pts or in a traditional way.

Thanks

WingedWorldExplorer

Start trip from beautifully located airport and end trip in European Capital and do not not worry about ever flying the 13 miler.

and YES, I deliberately did not show the lowest cost combination. There are other destinations resulting in much lower All-in price.( saved screenshots of sub 164 R/T itinerary ).
Also if you do not want to waste the 13 miler X factor, you can just use a highly flyable American Airlines TCON. for~ $ 60 more or COPA C1-C 1.5.

Sisyphus1carus

Hi, should one focus on finding a trick involving the airlines they DO have an interline agreement with or those that they don't ??
Cheers :-)

jorun

if the airlines don't have IA you can't mix them. You can mix them only if there is a third airline which has IA with the others. It's a smart way to force the ota to issue the ticket on another stock.
Anyway most of the dump are between airlines with IA.
it's better to focus the attention on which stock dumps the airline XX. There is a tool which can tell you exactly if airline XX is dumpable by stock XX. Sometimes fare rules tell you exactly which stock dump airline XX.

glennhaak

As much as I was annoyed by your previous posts, this is something that newbies like myself can work with, thanks for clarifying!

jorun

geelgors

jorun

You didn't get the point.

Think in this way:
How many tricks "was applied" on trick it thread using the fares/deals posted on Mileage Run Discussion/other forums/whatever ? I can guarantee you that the list is very long!

At the same time ask to yourself: Why apparentely no one found or posted exactly what I wrote? (I remember you, I did two post with two prices)

Deal is one thing <---------------------------------------------------------------------> Maximize a deal with tricks is another thing.
(your knowledge will <-------------------------------------------------------------------> (think OUTSIDE the box)
stop on blogs).

This also explain why it's true the statement that often everything is under the nose but you can't see it.



Side note:
C2-C1.5 RT 123€ AI

zroland