At least you received a phone call. I was booked on EK208 for a flight in November and only found out about the cancellation when I received an email concerning a change in my return connecting flight and then went on-line and saw that I was switched to the later EK202 flight. Since I wanted to arrive in Dubai earlier that day, I tried to have my flight switched to EK204 but was informed that there was no availability in F since I was traveling on miles. I then got my TA involved and was able to switch my flight to the EK208 leaving the prior evening even though I was originally informed that flight was also unavailable using miles.