Originally Posted by lorkers

I just booked a reward redemption for Business for SYD-DXB-LHR for next week, so it is still possible to spend miles on this route, but award redemption is very poor right now, and gets much worse from December onwards when Australians are allowed back in - and out - of Australia.

Curiously, when I tried to just book SYD-DXB, there were no seats, but hunting for SYD-DXB-LHR, and a few opened up, which seems a little counter-intuitive, so maybe EK has just blocked DXB as a destination. Which would be really odd.