Originally Posted by
rprasan1985
I'm attempting to book 3 EK first class seats for next year. I'm doing a live search on seats.aero, and see availability for 3 passengers on the date I'm looking for. !
Seat availability does not directly translate into reward availability. The reward inventory is tightly controlled by EK and you are lucky to find 1 seat available. Post Covid, they have been able to sell most of their inventory in the premium cabins and so they have no real incentive to make 'free' seats available. The only time I have been able to grab 3 seats in F was on the newly introduced 207/208 service to JFK. Forget F, I just booked 2 J reward seats and the return leg had to be in Flex Plus because EK did not have J Saver inventory DXB-BOM on any day in the month and they do 5 daily to BOM, 4 777s and 1 380 .
Also, you will have much better luck tracking F reward availability if you were to track upgrades ex/to DXB rather than O/D.