Originally Posted by thijsseh

I recently did a bit of a 'study' on this for EK147 (DXB/AMS), J>F.
Awards opened up between 45 and 4 days before the flight.

Sadly not for 11/4, so we had to sit in J after a really nice first sector (CPT/DXB) in F (which had opened up almost 60 days out). Even got an airbridge gate in concourse A for arrival!
And there were even 2 empty F seats on that CPT/DXB leg, so opening it up was a good move by EK.