Fuel Dumping Tool: Step-by-step guide

Fuel Dumping Tool: Step-by-step guide | Secret Flying

When we first released the Secret Flying Fuel Dumping Tool, we received many messages asking for more detailed instructions on how to use it.

This step-by-step guide will show you exactly what to do.

 

FIRST READ THIS ARTICLE: FUEL DUMPING: THE BASICS

 

Please remember, not every flight is dumpable. Of the few that are dumpable, the vast majority will not work with a 3x strike. 1x strikes are a lot easier to find.
Also, not every flight route you search will have a good result. Some routes are simply not combinable due to the restrictive airlines that fly them. That’s why it’s important to find a good candidate fare first – see here.
Please do not contact us asking for help in finding a working dump. This tool alone can achieve incredible results if used correctly.

 

Here is the step-by-step guide:

 

1. We must first decide on a flight to dump. In this example, the main flight we will attempt to dump will be a roundtrip flight from Boston to Beijing from 26th September to 3rd October 2016 (of course, use a different date). Enter these flight details in the “Main Flight” section (see image below).

 

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Before we continue, have a look on a booking site to see what the typical price for this route is on this particular day. Keep note of this number for later.

Also, ensure pop-ups are enabled on the Secret Flying Fuel Dumping Tool page.

 

2. If you are already aware of some working strikes, you can use the “Search Pairs” option. This is because many valid strikes work on many different routes and airlines. The “Search Pairs” option is a great way to find new dumpable routes.

 

However, in this example, we’ll act as if we don’t know of any working strikes so we’ll have to start from scratch. We will need to search for strikes completely randomly using the “Search every city combo” option. This option enables the tool to pair every city/airport code you enter in the box with one another.

 

3. So where will we get our list of random airport codes from? Well a great place is the ITA Matrix website. First we have to decide which random small region of the world we will search for the strike. For this example, we will choose South-East Australia.

 

4. So head over to the ITA Matrix website and type, “Sydney” in the departing from box. Then click the pin icon to open the Advanced Airport Search box. Here, you can get a list of airports within 300 miles of SYD.

The reason we recommend finding airports within 300 miles is because – as mentioned in the Fuel Dumping: the basics article – strikes should be very short in flight duration. If they are long and expensive, then adding the strike to the main itinerary would make the whole ticket costly, defeating the purpose of this practice.

 

5. Input these airport codes into the Secret Flying Fuel Dumping Tool strikes box. In this example search, we are going to try and find a 3x, so select the 3x option.

 

Read this step-by-step guide on how to use the Secret Flying Fuel Dumping Tool. Flight deal ticket image.

 

Because we are searching for a 3x strike, the date of the strike must come after the main flight. Automatically, the tool adjusts the 3x strike date to 1 week after the main flight’s return. You can change the date if you prefer.

 

 

6. Next, select which website to search your flights on from the drop-down list.

 

7. Now this is where the Secret Flying Fuel Dumping Tool works its magic. Click the Calculate Routes button. The webpage will reload and create a list of all the route possibilities based on the South-East Australia airport codes we entered.

 

 

As you can see in the image above, each route consist of 3 legs:
Flight 1: Boston – Beijing
Flight 2: Beijing – Boston
Flight 3: South-East Australian city – South-East Australian city.

 

8. Before you click the Open Next Batch button, you can select how many flights to open in your web browser tabs for each batch. We recommend to use 5 to ensure your web browser does not crash. However, if you have a powerful computer, you can increase this number.

Many mobile browsers will allow you to only open 1 new tab at a time, so select 1 if you are using a mobile device.

 

9. Now click the Open Next Batch button to open each flight in your browser’s tabs. The tool will highlight the routes that have been opened in green. The unopened ones remain red.

 

 

10. Allow the webpages to fully load before you view the prices given by the booking site on each tab. When you are ready to open the next batch, close all tabs first, then proceed.

 

11. Repeat steps 9 and 10 to work your way through the list.

 

It is likely the booking site will eventually give you a Captcha page for you to prove you are a human.
Once you solve the Captcha, you can click the Open Last Batch button to reload the pages which failed.

 

12. As you view the prices of each route in the opened tabs, you can check if any are significantly lower than the standard Boston to Beijing roundtrip price we asked you to look for at the beginning of the guide. If there are, it means a fuel dump has occurred and you have successfully found a strike.

 

Write this strike down as it may work on many different routes around the world.

 

Remember, not all strikes eliminate 100% of the fuel surcharge component. Some dump only 25% or 50%.
These are still worth knowing about, however, the real prize is finding a strike that dumps 100% of the fuel surcharge…especially a 3x strike.

 

For your convenience, we have made it possible to paste in your strikes instead of typing them in manually each time.
For the “every city combo” option use this format: NYC BOS PHL WAS
For the “pairs” option use this format: NYC-BOS NYC-PHL BOS-PHL

 

Enjoy your new hobby.

 


 

REMEMBER:

Not every route on any day is dumpable – very few actually are.
There will be times when you may have gone through hundreds, maybe even thousands of routes and still not found anything.

For best results, first find a good candidate fare before using the Fuel Dumping Tool – see here.

The Secret Flying Fuel Dumping Tool does not find fuel dumps for you. It simply allows you to search through many different routes at a much quicker speed than doing it manually on a booking website.