Originally Posted by
lorkers
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.
These are called married segments. It's not odd, most airlines do this to and from Australia. CX and QR are notorious for this.
I booked a F award around 2 months ago SYD-DXB-LHR. The very next day they disappeared completely and haven't come back since.