Originally Posted by
Flyingmedic
thanks for the reply! That makes sense. I waded through so many pages on the EK website but couldn’t find anything specific. I’m happy to upgrade through my TA. I was just worried I would have to wait until just before flying and risk not having the seats available.
Thanks so much for your help!
Hi
Flyingmedic
Welcome to the Emirate Forum. Good to see you here and definitely the right place for finding out anything to do with travelling on EK.
One thing to note is that you will have to do any changes before your outbound through your TA. EK will not apply any change requests as the ticket is ‘owned’ by the TA until OLCI opens (and even after, it may be a bit hard to apply any changes through EK rather than your TA but should be do-able).
I have been in this situation before but yours may differ - I called up EK to upgrade. Was told they couldn’t do it because it was a TA ticket. Contacted my (Corporate) TA who were able to upgrade. Now, EK normally doesn’t charge the change fee when upgrading with cash to a higher cabin (fare difference), however, when I mentioned this to my TA, they told me that they had no option but to charge the change fee on top of fare difference.
Your TA may operate differently but good luck and let us know how you get on. And as already mentioned by
ft101, you can call up any time to make the change.
Safe & Happy Travels
S