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Old Feb 2, 2013 | 7:39 am
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Originally Posted by danrts
hi I purchased an F ticket out of Italy (Venice -> Sydney -> Venice) for ~5200 euro. (skywards flex fare) ... (I know the equivalent Sydney - Venice - Sydney is something like $12,000 AUD in F!)

I've done the Venice to Sydney in January and am doing the Sydney to Venice in May.

I called up Emirates and also tried doing it online, to move my flight (EK413 on A380) to a day earlier in May....and the option was to pay something like 15,000 euro and that was to Business (no available first class)!

Has anyone else found changing dates on a paid F class ticket quite difficult and quite a lot different to original fare paid? (I would have thought a full fare F ticket (admittedly it's almost half price when purchased originating in Europe VS purchased originating in Australia) would offer some degree of flexibility in terms of changing flights)
It seems a bit unfair and misleading to state that EK is trying to charge you 15,000 Euro without mentioning that this is for the whole family: two adults and one infant. All of the I statements in the OP make me assume that this is for travel only by the OP until I see the screen shot in post #13.

Option 1 is almost the same price as the original ticket and totally in FC. Option 2 is half in FC while Option 3 has business class only on the short connecting SYD-MEL flight. The most expensive Option 3 is still significantly less than 15,000 Euro per adult.

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