Originally Posted by
JTXC
Thanks for looking that up for me. I will wait a bit before booking to see if the new EK online booking system is up by, say, the end of September.
On another note, I have usually found that when booking over the phone with EK I get the same fare as online. I had to do a booking over the phone recently when for some reason the website would not accept my AMEX card; the agent on the phone processed it at exactly the same fare.
Given the fares are the same, why wait? There are no benefits to booking online over booking over the phone other than that you may be automatically signed up for that month's accelerator bonuses