Post: #76

adioso.com has been my go-to site for booking flights anywhere around the world.

It gives a bar-chart type representation of cost of flights pre/post the date chosen, so if you are flexible with dates, you can pick the best one based on requirements (fastest, cheapest).

   

   

Post: #77

(03-25-2015 05:11 PM)Windom Earle Wrote:  adioso.com has been my go-to site for booking flights anywhere around the world.

Bravo, an honest site with honest results, thanks for the input.

Post: #78

(03-24-2015 12:56 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:  you're sitting on a gold mine and should have your own site/biz.

(03-24-2015 02:28 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  Thanks for the thread magicone.

(03-25-2015 02:45 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  The guy is just trying to help. If you think about it he is doing the legwork for you. he is actually taking the time and searching for you. He isn't asking for your real legal name, credit card info, any of that. Some people try to make it seem like he is up to something evil.

He is just trying to help.

The world is starting to be a funny place when someone is trying to help someone for free and gets beat on.

It isn't like he is asking for rep points. Though if anyone does get legit help and you actually save some money because of magicone it might be nice to do something for him.

(03-25-2015 03:55 PM)LINUX Wrote:  

(03-21-2015 08:23 AM)magicone Wrote:  I can only tell you when and where the best deals are,
and you do the reservations yourself, on
different major airlines company websites.

I only save you lots of hours of searching, I cannot use the travel agency
where I work for making the reservations for you.

I am using the software of my travel agency, which searches
for the promotional deals in all hotels and all airlines
that exist in US, Europe and Asia.

He was very open with what he is doing. He is using the search at his work to find promotions on certain airlines that you can find yourself if you spend 12 hours searching around and visiting every airline website.

Chill out with the lynching mob. The guy is trying to save some people some time. We can't have a "6 figure in the oil sands in canada" thread every week so some people try to give what they have. That's why we are here on this forum, travel, getting laid, and helping each other out.

Thanks for the support guys.

This thread was completely hijacked by ASimpNamedBrokeback,
his insults and his hate.

As I wrote several times, I only save a lot of hours of searches
for everyone who is travelling in US, in Europe
or between US and Europe, and finding them the lowest
prices in the world, available directly from about 20 different
major airlines, usually prices between $ 10 and $ 150
per flight, all airport taxes included and also one or two
hand cabin luggages included of maximum 20 or 30 kgs.

I guarantee that I find the lowest prices in the world,
in few minutes, and not after few hours or days of searching.

I am working in the travel industry since my first year of University
studies, so I have a large experience in this.

The airline that ASimpNamedBrokeBack mentioned is one
of the airlines with average/medium prices, and absolutely by far
not the lowest prices.

There are about 20 airlines that have prices between $ 10
and $ 150 per flight inside US, inside Europe, and between
US and Europe.

I received over 90 requests this week.

Everyone can reserve their flights directly on the websites
of these about 20 large airlines companies.

I never ask for anything: not name, not credit card info,
absolutely nothing.

Those who want the lowest prices in the world for any destination
in Europe and US, they wrote me.

Those who enjoy drama, hate, insults, trolling, they can all
follow ASimpNamedBrokeback further.

Post: #79

I'm not hating or trolling, I posted a link to the site you screen capped. I thought that might be helpful in a thread titled "how to get flights to Europe for under $200".

Post: #80

(03-24-2015 01:22 PM)magicone Wrote:  And another one, from the same airline company:



I am sure that some of the 3000 readers of this thread know
which airline company is.

I will underline the fact that if the airline companies
are posted in this public forum, not only that these prices
will quickly dissapear and not be available anymore,
but also I will stop posting here,
because it means that because of few "smart dudes" who try to
impress others with their knowledge,
everyone who really
need these flights will be missing out on the low promotional prices
and pay much more for the same flights

I wrote clearly not to advertise publicly airlines,
I underlined that, but ASimpNamedBrokeback wanted to prove
that he is that "smart dude troll" that simply harms everyone.

If ASimpNamedBrokeback really wanted to advertise
this particular airline company
he could have started another thread of his own,
and not completely hijack this thread with his insults and trolling,
with drawing dicks and writing "sh*t" and combinations
of insulting words in a lot of his posts.

Post: #81

I for one, also greatly appreciate your efforts and insights.

I had an LTR with a travel agent and know first hand the deals she saw on a daily basis. Try to ignore the trolling if possible, one upmanship is not a character trait that furthers the cause of this forum and you are kind to give back with your efforts. There would not be so many travel portals out there if there was not a profit center available to them to make money off of us. Who is paying for all those TV ads?

Unless you work in the industry, or understand the business model, it is hard to get that point across. In the end, if you aren't booking directly with the airline, you are paying someone a cut and sometimes that cut doubles the price. Skillful marketing and conditioning the masses to $900 RT prices to Europe works in the favor of the industry.

Post: #82

(03-26-2015 09:52 AM)Buster Wrote:  I for one, also greatly appreciate your efforts and insights.

I had an LTR with a travel agent and know first hand the deals she saw on a daily basis. Try to ignore the trolling if possible, one upmanship is not a character trait that furthers the cause of this forum and you are kind to give back with your efforts. There would not be so many travel portals out there if there was not a profit center available to them to make money off of us. Who is paying for all those TV ads?

Unless you work in the industry, or understand the business model, it is hard to get that point across. In the end, if you aren't booking directly with the airline, you are paying someone a cut and sometimes that cut doubles the price. Skillful marketing and conditioning the masses to $900 RT prices to Europe works in the favor of the industry.

Yes absolutely, this is how things are:

Some portal has for example :

http://www.manta.com/mb_34_B72D4_000/travel_agencies

"Manta has 86,153 companies under Travel Agencies in the United States"

With many hours per day of simultaneous searching
on a lot of multiple websites, for separate days,
and then trying to combine all those days into one itinerary,
people can find some of the promotional deals by themselves,
as well. My help was for saving their many hours of work
and searches, and also giving directly the lowest
guaranteed price that exists in this world for their trips / itineraries.

Post: #83

It's the title of your thread that seems to be misleading people. Add in screencapping the airlines sites themselves and not being totally transparent with your info, I can see the animosity. I clicked this expecting to find some magical fairy airfares, too. I just booked LAX -> Buda a few weeks ago and paid about $900. Maybe you should re-title the thread "I'll help you find the cheapest fares from the US -> Europe" instead. From what it sounds like you're just using your travel agency software to simultaneously query multiple travel sites and avoid the pains of having to visit every individual airline, right?

For those of you inclined to do the same without having to post a request, here's a bunch of sites that do the same:

kayak.com
skyscanner.com
airfarewatchdog.com
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ (Google's flight search engine, but superior to Google Flights IMO)

As far as getting cheap flights, keep an eye on theflightdeal.com - some good shit pops up there daily.

Post: #84

This is how I know you're lying. The prices that you screen capped once converted to the dollar are the same prices that are shown on skyscanner and kayak. Everyone in the world sees those fares anytime they search a route that Norwegian flies. Its not secret, they are not going to dissapear. Most what you are saying is vague and misleading, but the part about posting the name of the airline is a lie. Not to mention it was already posted on the first page.

Post: #85

FWIW, Norwegian doesn't allow 20-30 kg hand luggage - I don't think any airline allows this unless you're flying Emirates First Class or something. It's a strictly-enforced 10kg. This airline does fly new 787's, but expect a Spirit-like experience in terms of being forced to pay for just about everything additional. WOW has much higher fees, albeit not as robust of a connecting network.

aSimpNamedBrokeback was simply pointing out that you've posted screenshots of WOW Air and Norwegian fares. I don't see why you're so worried about being open with these fares since they're publicly advertised and discussed already on travel forums across the world. The fares aren't mistakes and won't disappear if we discuss them openly.

Post: #86

And this is how gentlemen,
this thread was completely hijacked by the insults of the ASimpNamedBrokeback troll:

(03-21-2015 09:46 AM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  I'm calling bullshit on this thread. He's just using his software to find super cheap flights on random dates. Anyone with enough time can find those random flights.

I just found a $460 JFK-PEK while sitting on the shitter.

Nobody asked to fly to China, but... for ASimpNamedBrokeback that doesn´t matter.

(03-21-2015 10:13 AM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  $394 direct flight JFK to Cartagena on Jetblue.

This thread is for cheap flights to US and Europe, not expensive flights to South America.

(03-21-2015 08:37 PM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  

(03-21-2015 08:16 PM)THE STRONGEST Wrote:  Why are you calling bullshit? Is that not EXACTLY what he said he's doing?

He's being helpful, if you'd rather search for flights yourself do that.

I clicked it with high hopes and was disappointed.

Because everything in the world is only about a troll´s "high hopes"
and the whole world must revolve around his "high hopes"

(03-25-2015 03:30 PM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  

(03-25-2015 02:11 PM)magicone Wrote:  The insults that ASimpNamedBrokeback constantly posts
("this is bullshit", "shitter", drawing dicks in this thread, etc),
simply makes me think that helping RVF members
save hundreds or thousands of dollars
per flight in today´s world is interpreted always
just as stupidity and naivety from my part...

The part about 15-20 airlines is bullshit. Its just Norwegian!!!!

Here is the link: http://www.norwegian.com/uk/flight/tips/
Use, the drop down to change your location.

Look $147 one way ticket to from New York to Europe that anyone can find, no magic. $127 return, I guess he deserves props for pointing out that Norwegian has these fares

(03-25-2015 04:43 PM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  I just realized the fares posted on the Norwegian website are in Euros.
So even the Norwegian link isn't special.

As usually, the troll who hijacked the thread,
contradicts himself in a matter of less than 1 hour.

Post: #87

Just to confirm, I PM'd Magicone for some info and he got back to me via email. It was a Canada to Dominican flight that my girlfriend was asking about, and he pointed out that although he knows of much better deals from US to Europe, he found the cheapest set of single flights that would get her there. Yes, we probably could have found this ourselves, but he saved us a bunch of time and is genuinely trying to be helpful.

This feels like a simple case of, if you don't think this help/advice is for you, why not move on to one of the other hundred threads on the forum???

Post: #88

What are some deals going on the beginning of April to late April ? I need to get to Europe and bang some brunettes before heading to Colombia

Post: #89

(03-26-2015 12:57 PM)TooFineAPoint Wrote:  Just to confirm, I PM'd Magicone for some info and he got back to me via email. It was a Canada to Dominican flight that my girlfriend was asking about, and he pointed out that although he knows of much better deals from US to Europe, he found the cheapest set of single flights that would get her there. Yes, we probably could have found this ourselves, but he saved us a bunch of time and is genuinely trying to be helpful.

This feels like a simple case of, if you don't think this help/advice is for you, why not move on to one of the other hundred threads on the forum???

maybe magicone needs to stop trying to help. I mean this genuinely. He gave me some info offline and it was helpful. He is a good guy, trying to help.

However, I am afraid if this thing keeps getting derailed. A nice guy like magicone may 1) stop trying to help 2) stop participating in the forum altogether or 3) worse yet, somehow it escalates with this back and forth and he gets banned because he is trying to defend himself. Which would be tragic in a way because all he was trying to do was help.

magicone you are a true sport for trying to help others. Even if the info is publically available, you took the time to help someone else. I hope that point is not missed by people on the forum.

I also understand it is hard to ignore stuff when your character is being attacked. So maybe it might be wise to take a break from all this.

Haters gonna hate and sadly it takes value away from others. And it would be terrible if this experience were to cause you or anyone to not want to help others.

Hang in there.

Edit: What is interesting is people have made some requests here for certain flights and dates and others who seem to have knowledge about airtravel have spent more time attacking magicone, rather than just helping out on the various flight requests. Interesting use of energy and time.

Post: #90

(03-26-2015 01:45 PM)LINUX Wrote:  What are some deals going on the beginning of April to late April ? I need to get to Europe and bang some brunettes before heading to Colombia

Save some brunettes for me!

Post: #91

(03-26-2015 09:52 AM)Buster Wrote:  I for one, also greatly appreciate your efforts and insights.

I had an LTR with a travel agent and know first hand the deals she saw on a daily basis. Try to ignore the trolling if possible, one upmanship is not a character trait that furthers the cause of this forum and you are kind to give back with your efforts. There would not be so many travel portals out there if there was not a profit center available to them to make money off of us. Who is paying for all those TV ads?

Unless you work in the industry, or understand the business model, it is hard to get that point across. In the end, if you aren't booking directly with the airline, you are paying someone a cut and sometimes that cut doubles the price. Skillful marketing and conditioning the masses to $900 RT prices to Europe works in the favor of the industry.

(03-26-2015 12:57 PM)TooFineAPoint Wrote:  Just to confirm, I PM'd Magicone for some info and he got back to me via email. It was a Canada to Dominican flight that my girlfriend was asking about, and he pointed out that although he knows of much better deals from US to Europe, he found the cheapest set of single flights that would get her there. Yes, we probably could have found this ourselves, but he saved us a bunch of time and is genuinely trying to be helpful.

This feels like a simple case of, if you don't think this help/advice is for you, why not move on to one of the other hundred threads on the forum???

(03-26-2015 01:45 PM)LINUX Wrote:  What are some deals going on the beginning of April to late April ? I need to get to Europe and bang some brunettes before heading to Colombia

Yes, I PMed you the details,
there are still a few flights available from U.S. to Europe for different days in the middle of April.

(03-26-2015 02:18 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  

(03-26-2015 12:57 PM)TooFineAPoint Wrote:  Just to confirm, I PM'd Magicone for some info and he got back to me via email. It was a Canada to Dominican flight that my girlfriend was asking about, and he pointed out that although he knows of much better deals from US to Europe, he found the cheapest set of single flights that would get her there. Yes, we probably could have found this ourselves, but he saved us a bunch of time and is genuinely trying to be helpful.

This feels like a simple case of, if you don't think this help/advice is for you, why not move on to one of the other hundred threads on the forum???

maybe magicone needs to stop trying to help. I mean this genuinely. He gave me some info offline and it was helpful. He is a good guy, trying to help.

However, I am afraid if this thing keeps getting derailed. A nice guy like magicone may 1) stop trying to help 2) stop participating in the forum altogether or 3) worse yet, somehow it escalates with this back and forth and he gets banned because he is trying to defend himself. Which would be tragic in a way because all he was trying to do was help.

magicone you are a true sport for trying to help others. Even if the info is publically available, you took the time to help someone else. I hope that point is not missed by people on the forum.

I also understand it is hard to ignore stuff when your character is being attacked. So maybe it might be wise to take a break from all this.

Haters gonna hate and sadly it takes value away from others. And it would be terrible if this experience were to cause you or anyone to not want to help others.

Hang in there.

Edit: What is interesting is people have made some requests here for certain flights and dates and others who seem to have knowledge about airtravel have spent more time attacking magicone, rather than just helping out on the various flight requests. Interesting use of energy and time.

Thank you samsamsam, your advices are very valuable and
your insights on human psychology also very true each time. I really appreciate your thoughts
and the way you see things.

I can anytime take a competition, with clear rules, and some independent judges,
with anyone else who wants, to find the lowest price available for flights to any city in Europe,
in any month of 2015,
and the one of us who finds the lowest available price, will be rewarded
with the difference between the lowest price, and the highest price
found by another competitor.

I have been getting flights for my friends for a long time now for under $ 250,
for destinations where they were used paying over $ 1000 for the same,
and I am confident that I find each time the absolute lowest prices
that exist at major airlines in this world.

Post: #92

I am puzzled that the attacks on magicone are allowed to continue. People have been banned for less.

Post: #93

(03-26-2015 02:57 PM)magicone Wrote:  I can anytime take a competition, with clear rules, and some independent judges,
with anyone else who wants, to find the lowest price available for flights to any city in Europe,
in any month of 2015,
and the one of us who finds the lowest available price, will be rewarded
with the difference between the lowest price, and the highest price
found by another competitor.

I have been getting flights for my friends for a long time now for under $ 250,
for destinations where they were used paying over $ 1000 for the same,
and I am confident that I find each time the absolute lowest prices
that exist at major airlines in this world.

Can you screen cap or link to at least one non Norwegian under $200 trans Atlantic flight?

Post: #94

I think the issue is transparency. Magicone is asking for others to PM him instead of publicly disclosing the information. To me, it's like someone posting a thread with a title like 'The best place to get laid in Rio' and then asking for us to PM for more info.

Just to clarify for others, Norwegian flies to Europe from NYC, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, LAX and Oakland. They fly to a whole bunch of cities, usually connecting in Oslo. As Magicone has showed us, they have a handy month-long low fare finder on their website.

WOW Air flies from Boston and BWI to Europe through Iceland.

Some things I want to mention for others that haven't been mentioned:

-Norwegian charges $54 for the first checked bag, up to 20kg. The second checked bag is $67. (From the USA, one-way) This is a minimum of $108 extra if you plan on using more than the free 10kg allowance.
-Seat reservation is $42 per flight from the USA on Norwegian. I wouldn't want to fly in a middle seat, so that'd cost me $84 extra.
-Here's the Norwegian on-board food menu. Nothing is included for free. A can of soda is $4.50.

Here are WOW Air's fees: LINK TO FEES

They will charge you $38 if your carry-on is more than 5kg. Crazy.

Post: #95

"magicone" has been extremely responsive and helpful to me. I'm planning a trip to Europe and with "magicone"'s help and prices, I'm looking to include one of my bucket list destinations.

Thanks again for your help; I greatly appreciate it.

Post: #96

It could just be that PM and emails is easier to manage than a super long thread with requests. It could be as simple as that.

He hasn't asked for any confidential information. If he has then I would be concerned.

Maybe he is just peculiar about how he wants to do it.

I just think the heat he is getting is a bit much.

He is trying to help people and all he asks for it is done in the form of a PM. Is that so unreasonable? Has he become some sort of servant to us and has no rights? If he handled all the requests on this thread instead of PMs, would the people who are hating on him be giving him props instead? I am just curious what was it that pushed it over the top from a good thing to a bad thing that he was doing.

Just the process of using PMs?

Edit: For me the baggage fees are a bit rough for my longer planned trip so I probably won't be taking his recommendations that he gave me. Also, I have status on an airline, so I am willing to pay a bit more. But he took the time to look for me!!! That is pretty cool.

Edit: Maybe he just wanted to help those who are registered on RVF rather than the lurkers who take but never give. He has his reasons I imagine. Someone could always ask why this process vs. that process.

Post: #97

I'm surprised that with everyone vouching for him, no one has posted something along the lines of "Hey Simpback, heres a screen shot of the deal magicone was able to get me, now do you believe?".

It doesn't seem like a legitimate link or screen shot is too much to ask.

Post: #98

(03-26-2015 06:57 PM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  I'm surprised that with everyone vouching for him, no one has posted something along the lines of "Hey Simpback, heres a screen shot of the deal magicone was able to get me, now do you believe?".

It doesn't seem like a legitimate link or screen shot is too much to ask.

Why do you care so much? As far as I know, he isn't making money off of this.

Post: #99

(03-26-2015 07:07 PM)worldwidetraveler Wrote:  Why do you care so much? As far as I know, he isn't making money off of this.

I don't care if he makes money, I hope he gets rich. I'm alot more interested in the $200 fares to Europe.

Post: #100

Simp, you should knock it off.