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Old Nov 20, 2013, 7:48 am
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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.

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Old Feb 22, 2019, 10:11 am
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Originally Posted by MerNion
All these apply for one specific day or you can play around with dates? Because if you are to find a one-specific-day-combination, there is no need to tell us because it is virtually impossible to manage to find it.. Unless you only want to brag about finding it.. Sorry, couldn't code all that and wrote it in free speech language
​​​​​​Knowing how to operate search tool and a little bit of effort. Guess that combination is old fashioned.

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Old Feb 22, 2019, 11:41 am
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Originally Posted by smallfeet
Not true. Found the BF within minutes.

I found the base fare quickly. But the fare rules don't seem conducive to dumping. Is the dump OTA specific? Thanks.
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Old Feb 23, 2019, 8:02 am
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Originally Posted by mendozer
I found the base fare quickly. But the fare rules don't seem conducive to dumping. Is the dump OTA specific? Thanks.
Did you read posting 9447 ?
Or are you talking 4.50 € bf. "Delle Grazie"
Reference is helpful to avoid time wasting confusion.

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Old Feb 23, 2019, 8:03 am
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Old Feb 23, 2019, 12:53 pm
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Originally Posted by WingedWorldExplorer
Did you read posting 9447 ?
Or are you talking 4.50 € bf. "Delle Grazie"
Reference is helpful to avoid time wasting confusion.
I meant for the 4.5bf. Is the dump OTA specific? Thanks.
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Old Feb 23, 2019, 3:45 pm
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TP deal

Purpose of posting a non dumped deal C1 - C2 was to validate that New Yorkers can do RTW for cheap €. with up 5 stop overs,
including HKT,KBV,MDL,AKL,CXR,SIN,BKK
​​​​​​No 1Xs involved. No LCC.No risk.
airboss, mendozer and smallfeet like this.

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Old Feb 26, 2019, 1:10 am
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Now that's a routing I would love to see......
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Old Feb 26, 2019, 2:14 am
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You only need to buy severeal oneway tickets.
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Old Feb 27, 2019, 11:09 am
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Originally Posted by WingedWorldExplorer
Stop-Over in wine producing Non-French city.
That is great, how about the return? Killer expensive or not?
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Old Feb 28, 2019, 7:30 am
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Originally Posted by EasternTraveler
That is great, how about the return? Killer expensive or not?
SUB 100 Euros R/T, but intent of posting was to explain RTW.

Buying series of 1 ways is expensive and a waste of money.
80%+ of RTW can be bought on 1 ticket.

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Old Mar 1, 2019, 1:50 pm
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Laos

Europe to Vientiane, Laos RT or Open Jaw Luang Prabang Laos (north) to Europe 179,75 € All in. 3 Free Stop-Overs included.
Substitute Bangkok or Phuket for Vientiane and pay just 9 € more.
Safe construction. No LCC.

158.15 € All in RT - visit 4 cities not incl city of departure.

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Old Mar 2, 2019, 6:04 pm
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A random itinerary

Might be of help for someone-
C1-C6 // OJ C3-C1 for $314 . Two options for return city in C3 for same price.

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Old Mar 3, 2019, 3:20 am
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Originally Posted by mihaid
C2S to C6 for EUR 263 return, with 3X. July and August, so during Southern “winter”.
Does it still work?
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Old Mar 6, 2019, 12:19 pm
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C2s (multiple airports) - C3sw, 260 Euros
HINT: Island destination
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Old Mar 7, 2019, 8:22 am
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C1E - C6 Place from postcard for 518€
from C1W for 512€
safe with 3x
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