Originally Posted by
Wtravel
To update my earlier post: I was able to just book a mileage upgrade for a flight within the next 36 hours (until now again only the (not attractive) cash upgrade special was being offered on the check-in page), with both the EK alert and EF failing to notify me that upgrades had become available.
This happened to me with FLL. Around T-38 I called as I saw the cash offer was available, EK and EF showed no miles availability but the agent said there was