The corporate travel agency in their infinite wisdom booked what should have been one pricing unit SAN-SEA-DXB-HYD-DXB-LAX as two separate tickets SAN-SEA and the rest. One on AS stock, and one on EK stock. For more money. And then downgraded me to Y on SAN-SEA bc of corporate travel policy.

At least I was able to get them to let me fly into PAE since it's a separate ticket anyway (this issue with upgrades and data updates was happening even before that change, so who knows).

I never get OLCI on account of having a CPAP (sleep apnea) machine onboard, so no loss there. I have the miles for the J->F, guess I'll use EF and bother EK once availability appears.