Originally Posted by
jackiedada
Its not any station, its DXB in question. Yes, reports may be filed every day but does any one bother to look at them - piles of them floating around given the number of flights EK has. And no one will, until you point it out to them.
Its up to the op to decide what he would like to do - I would. I've earned my miles the hard way and so it would cause me a good amount of distress that the humongous amounts of time that I've spent at the back of the plane come to naught when a Gold gets op-upped before me.
As Zol says above there is every chance I am a special case and have been black listed. I have only received one op up in the last six years (all as a Gold and as a Platinum these last few months) and that was in Paris from J to F last year some time.
The problem is I wrote a few times to (Sir) Maurice Flanagan with constructive criticism of and suggestions for the Skywards program way back in 2007 and 2008 and he took umbrage at some of my thoughts and personally fired a vitriolic response or two at me. For me this is a sign of "he who is most indignant is guilty" type response but having had a good op-up success rate until then I dropped to zero for about five years until I got the lone one in Paris last year.
An EK insider confirmed to me at our first Dubai Do that there is indeed a special list (not called a black list) that if I was on it would explain why I was so "unlucky" and promised to try to check it to see if I was on it but despite a couple of reminders he never got back to me. Hmmm. We are not talking about a no-fly list but a "this guy is a pain in the *ss so do not do anything for him if you can help it" type list.
Therefore given that I have never, ever had a response to any emails that I have sent through normal channels - probably for the same reason - I have little to no desire to waste more time and energy on this. I will do what I always do and that is buy tickets for the class of travel I want to fly in and on occasion use miles to upgrade - subject to there being any Z inventory available of course, but that is another story.