Originally Posted by
subject2load
My analogy would be that if I chose to book a very specific hotel room - and my booking was accepted and fully confirmed - then I would be VERY disappointed if the hotel suddenly decided to tell me, two months before arrival, that the room was no longer available. If however they told me on the very day of arrival that there had been a wholly unexpected plumbing problem and the room could simply not be got ready in time, then it would be rather more understandable.
You book a hotel months in advance and then the hotel gets final go ahead to do some refurbishment work and then the hotel schedules the work for 2 months time; those with bookings at that hotel may be impacted
Given that EK has a service at the same time from LHR, the impact would seem to be at worst having to leave an hour earlier to get to the airport ( if living somewhere where have to drive past Gatwick to get to Heathrow ).
Looking at schedules, it seems that there are a few days around end of nov/dec where an EK flight ends up with a 2 class aeroplane; it doesn't look like a permanent change just perhaps some aeroplane availability issues at that time