I dont expect any positive outcome to this query, but I just had to have a moan !

On Sunday evening I booked and paid for, an economy flight, on the Emirates web site to fly to Hong Kong and back in November. The Cost breakdown was £311.00 for the out bound and £212.00 for the return leg.

On Monday, having already booked my flight, my client in HK said that he would pay for an upgrade to Business Class on the return leg. According to Emirates web site, the cost of the return had I selected Business at time of booking was £806 - a difference of £694.00.

I called Emirates on Monday afternoon, less than 18 hours from when I made the original booking. The told me that as this was a change of class request, for just the return leg, the normal £100 change fee would be waived.

Great I thought in my naivity, it will only cost £694 to upgrade. Then Emirates told me how much the revised would be - an additional £1,426 !!

Why I asked - fare rules came the reply. I find it unbelievable