"Secret segment" or how to buy tickets at erroneous rates

Can you believe that if you add another ticket to your air travel, your trip will become cheaper? It sounds fantastic, but in fact, experienced travelers have long known about the existence of such secrets to reduce the cost of flights. This technique among tourists is also known as "Turkish dump" or "additional dump".

Whether "the Secret segment" is really an error in airline fares, we do not know, and perhaps this is just a clever marketing ploy. Only marketers of the air carrier will be able to answer this, and even then under terrible torture. We are still happy to use this "loophole", and tell you about it.

The search scheme for" erroneous "tariffs is simple, but requires brute force and many searches, or simply tracking similar" assemblies " of air tickets found by other users. For example, we publish such "assemblies" in our Telegram channel @nashaplaneta_net, in groups VK, OK or Facebook, and in forum topic.

We search on the most popular Russian flight search engine Aviasales. You can try other search engines as well, it's just that the Aviasales interface is best suited for such complex searches. So here's your search algorithm and immediately an example:

Step 1

We find the cheapest flights in the direction of the Gulf Air airline that interests us. As a rule, at this step you will have to sort through the dates in order to find exactly the cheapest Gulf Air flights, and not another airline. Gulf Air is Bahrain's airline and of course all flights will connect via Bahrain.

For example, we found a flight to Colombo for 24296 rubles.

Step 2

We turn to a complex search.

And add another flight after our return home. It is very important to add that flight exactly after the return, Why – read below. In our example, we add a flight across Japan from Tokyo to Okinawa, two days after returning. And miraculously we get the price of 22,841 rubles instead of 24,296!

Of course, The Last "Secret segment" we do not fly and just throw out the ticket, because it takes place in Japan. And that is why we have to pick it up for dates after our return home, because when we are not on one of the flights in the "air ticket Assembly", subsequent ones can be canceled, i.e. you simply will not be put on the flight home. Although who knows, maybe you will pick up another flight and go on a trip again. And then you do not need to throw out the ticket.

What is the secret of the "Secret segment", and how to select it correctly

Unfortunately, we don't know for sure whether the cause of this abnormal behavior is error or marketing. But the fact that such "mistakes" have existed for quite some time, and no one corrects them, suggests that all this was done specifically to increase competitiveness.

But the question arises, how to choose such a "secret segment". We do not have a definite answer to this question either. There is a theory that this should be a flight by a partner code-sharing airline. For Gulf Air, This Is Not All Nippon Airways, which performs the last segment in our example, so this theory is not confirmed. Here the only option is to try to sort out different domestic flights in different countries. According to our practice, prices are reduced when adding individual flights within Japan and Turkey, and if we find new countries, we will definitely fill in the information.

What else is important

• Such assemblies do not live long, so if found, immediately buy tickets.
• Note that all such assemblies operate only with transplants, sometimes very long. Weigh for yourself whether, for example, waiting 15 hours at the airport is worth saving a couple of thousand.
• In order not to reinvent the wheel yourself, subscribe to our Telegram channel (this is the fastest way to get builds), groups VK, OK or Facebook , and immediately get links to ready-made routes. Well, if you find something new, do not forget to share it in our groups or in the topic on the forum.
• Look for our offers with a secret segment on social networks by hashtag #Secret segment