In the last several months I am noticing EK making changes to my booked flight times. Today a flight EK852 on April 13th has been advanced by 10 minutes. Before Christmas I got caught with such a change and had to pay a penalty to catch a later flight. In that case, I arrived at the airport (DXB) with my printout and was told - "Sorry it has been changed and you should have received an SMS." Mobile was turned off as I was outside of the UAE and ... Grrr. Lesson learned. Now I get my alerts with emails.

In addition, my flights 106 and 881 on April 21st and 22nd have also been changed.

Anyone else have such changes? Ten or 15 minutes can make a BIG difference in my travel plans when others are depending on me leaving at a certain time and NOT earlier.

Comments? Is there a way to change this flight to a later one and NOT pay the EK "change fees"? Flying later would be better than flying sooner.