Preface: It was a boring afternoon at the end of July and one of my co-workers stumbled across the EK mistake fare from IAH-KWI for $387 connecting through DXB. Even with earning only 50% while crediting to AS on 17,408 miles flown, it results in 4.45 cpm. This was alerted in the FT Mileage Run forum too, though we did it mainly as a trip and not a MR. So after a bit of deliberation, four of us booked it for a long weekend leaving IAH Thursday evening and returning Sunday evening with the longest stopover we could manage in Dubai (~22 hrs). Our other coworkers thought we were insane. For a few moments, I thought we were insane too, but whatever. I figured, for $400 plus incidentals, it would be a great experience with a couple friends. Final routing was IAH-DXB-KWI, KWI-DXB-IAH and we’d be gone for 72 hours measured from CST. We would have liked to go a bit longer, but ran up against lack of vacation time and other constraints.

I saw a lot of other FTers booked this deal and despite digging through search results I couldn’t find any recent trip reports that profiled EK in Y. Of course we have more F and C reports than we can shake a stick at, so I figured I'd write up EK in Y for all of you in the event an MR or angry company person makes you fly this cabin.

Sections, all flights in Y, and no hotels:

-EK 212: IAH-DXB (777)
-22 hours in Dubai with no sleep (fancy restaurant, trashy clubs, nice bars, sand dune excursion, and a few random thoughts)
-EK 857: DXB-KWI (A380)
-KWI and the Pearl Lounge at KWI
-EK 854 KWI-DXB (777)
-Marhaba Lounge in DXB T3 Concourse A
-EK 211 DXB-IAH (777)