Hi everyone. I have a ticket booked in J for JFK-DXB-HYD on 9/25 and I'm looking to change it to 9/21. I called EK, and since there is no J available from DXB-HYD, they said its going to be an upsale to F. To my understanding, they UG to First, then just change the flights. It costs $2300, which is usually what upgrading this route J-F is. I'm just hoping the agent wasn't confused and is just stating the fare difference for the available fare, but that should not cost this much. I'm going to go ahead and book it. I'm just talking about it on here because I've never heard of this upsale thing. Usually to UG, even a paid UG, there needs to be seats available in the booked cabin, at least to my knowledge.
Unfortunately seats 2A&K are taken already JFK-DXB, so it looks like I'll be taking 1K. Light load that day. Only me and 3 others so far, but I expect it to go out full as it usually does on Fri/Sat nights.