Originally Posted by tpsmith82

Thought I’d post a quick reference point. I booked an F award back in May of 2021 for travel in March of 22. At the time I was looking at LAX or SFO to DXB. We wanted to fly the A380. LAX basically had no availability, but I was able to book the SFO flight. Well, fast forward a couple of months and that SFO flight was changed to the 777. So, for the past several months I’ve been checking, nearly every day, for a LAX-DXB segment to open. Just so happens that last night at 28 days out, 2 F seats opened on the LAX to DXB route!! Pretty anecdotal, as it looked like the only day that opened for at least that whole week, but great nonetheless and shows that EK does open additional space from time to time. I guess, someone could have canceled??? But, my guess is it opened up at 4 weeks. Either way, unbelievably I was able to call in, no hold time, and get things switched. Not ticketed yet….but it’s only been about 12h, so it should ticket soon…I’m hoping.



Now I’m sure the SFO flight will get switched to the new F 777 and I’ll be drowning my tears in a bottle of Dom flying in the A380…. ;-)