Originally Posted by
ung1
It depends where you are flying from. The specific example was ex Australia I presume, but EK is quite generous with change fees compared to other carriers such as BA for example.
On routes I tend to purchase, EK's fares tend to be very good and have less onorous restrictions.... e.g. when QF/BA were offering r.t in 1st to oz for GBP3000 they had restrictions of no refunds/no changes whilst EK was offering similar price with much more reasonable restrictions
These sorts of things ( apart from that I think that EK's premium products are very good ) which have a much more relevent impact for me than lesser things like FF miles.
Overall , the new earning structure has been no worse for me than the old one was