Originally Posted by
DuMaInSin
By the way - while waiting at the gate in HKT for the delayed flight we were upgraded from Economy to Business for the HKT-DXB leg. I am a lowly EK silver and my wife has no status at all. We had seats at the very back of the plane though (47JK in a 77W), so maybe they upgraded us to Business so that we would be out of the plane quicker?
I reckon it is more likely that there were 2 passengers who didn't have seats together. They kicked up a fuss, and you got the benefit
