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In My opinion EK is testing the ground how much they can rise before customers go somewhere else. Nothing else makes sense. Neither C is heavy booked during F flex blocking nore is C or F full during the C flex blocking period.
I don't think the word testing is the correct one - they already have historical booking patterns for the sectors in question as well as the economic profile of their customers and live data from searches to indicate demand that might be falling through the gaps in the projections.
What they are doing is simply adjusting pricing to match the demand they are confident of selling at various price points at various times to departure.
The lack of availability of Flex fares implies that their confidence is matched by reality. Revenue management is as much art as science.