This is good news. I often find myself with 10,000 or Skywards miles but seldom get more before they run risk of expiring. I can now spend them on PG who I fly quite a bit rather than on the poor value DXB duty free.

Its a shame FlyDubai's partners do not seem to be expanding with EK's. FFP alignment, I understood, was one of the aims of EK and FZ joining forces. FZ's airline partners remain zero other than EK from what I understand.