Originally Posted by dukerau

This is the closest I found to an Upgrades thread in this forum, so I wanted to report my experience. A few months ago, I grabbed a great revenue fare for my partner and me: one way Business Flex ATH-EWR for ~$1,600 pp, flying tomorrow 15 Oct.

I have American Express points that I was ready to move over if I could upgrade to F but there was no availability at time of booking. I couldn’t waitlist without having the miles in my Emirates account, so I signed up for Emirates to notify me of F upgrade availability. I also set an ExpertFlyer alert. On Wed 11 Oct at 11am Greek time, I got an EF alert of at least 1 F seat available. Turns out there were 3. I upgraded our two seats after transferring the requisite 60,000 Amex points to Emirates (instant). Interestingly, the Emirates alert of F upgrade availability came 3 hours after the EF alert.