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Old Feb 21, 2012 | 11:20 am
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whimike
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Originally Posted by mecabq
I am not sure if you're being serious or half-serious, but it is complete folly to expect an op-up, on Emirates or any other airline. Yeah, EK offers more op-ups than others, but it happens only a fraction of the time system-wide.
Definitely half-serious.

I knew the op-up chance would be high in particular scenarios, but certainly knew there were chances of it not happening and carefully chose my Y seats for that possibility.

This experience was more of a test of the system for me, and posting here to provide data points for others.
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