Checking on Ethiopian website.
The itinerary can be pulled out and everything seems in order. However, when clicking on the 'change' button, it says that 'The system has detected that your itinerary does not qualify for an exchange'
Up to a few hours ago, I could go one more step.
The message is the same one as that for my BKK-YYZ EF a few months back. And these apparently are not honoured. I had my ET website booking cancelled and refunded already and they were pretty fast with the refund and I even got a few dollars extra. The one booked through expedia is still live and I have not enquired on it yet.
So they had touched the CAI booking now .... what's next