Myself and my partner are flying from PER to DUB via DXB on 21st May on EK421/EK161.

We are both upgraded to J for the DXB-DUB leg but due to limited miles at the time we split our booking and upgraded one of us for the PER-DXB leg.

Typically upgrade availability disappeared the day before we gained enough miles for the last upgrade. That was over a month ago.

EF shows that there is still 19 seats available in J (including 4 No. blocked) and Y looks approx half full.

I got in touch with EK via email pleading with them to release one seat for upgrade but was given the standard response to wait until availability appears.

Is there anything I can do apart from waiting for availability?

It's part of my master plan around a very important question I will be asking her earlier that day.

Thanks in advance.