Originally Posted by flyer_sam

My brother in law will be starting his role as Pilot with Emirates this year. My wife, her siblings, and parents, all had their passports scanned so he could upload the information to Emirates for future discounts.

Since he is a Pilot, I've been told he has a bit more privilege in terms of "special tickets" aka friends/family discounts. He mentioned to my wife that he can add around 30 people to an extended family (including me)/friends list.

Now, my wife would get a much better discount but I assume as a standby ticket. My first question is if anyone knows what sort of a discount would I get? Would my discount only apply to a certain class like Y or can I apply it to J/F? I'll assume that if my wife doesn't want to take a risk to save a bit more but on an unconfirmed ticket, could she also purchase a discounted ticket, similar to mine, which would be confirmed?

We want to make some travel plans for the year but I've told my wife that I would only do so if we can get confirmed tickets and not standby (even if that would give me a slightly less discount).

If anyone could shed light on what I can expect in terms of my discount that would be great!